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Thirty-seven. The number of lives lost from the twenty-six active shooter situations in 2010.

There were 19 shootings in 2006, by far one of the worst years we have covered so far. In all that year, around 130 people were shot duri...

Sometimes, I feel like I have beaten the active shooter horse to death; but, then I read a strange case like the 2008 Wendy’s shooting in...

It was a cool Monday evening in February 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah. A dating couple had come to Trolley Square Mall to have a celebrat...

More unique cases appear in 2006. This year, we have a 13-year-old shooter, a shooter equipped with bombs, a female shooter, three cases ...

2005 seems to have been a year of unique active shooter situations. Of the ten that occurred that year, three dealt with special circumst...

School shootings are a touchy subject. The idea that someone could even walk into a school and start shooting people is just inconceivabl...

On the Fourth of July in 2002, a mere ten months after 9/11 shook the nation, an Egyptian Islamic national on a green card in the US walk...

“Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove Unfortunately, school shootings happen. They used to be something t...

On the morning of December 6, 2001, in Goshen, Indiana, a middle-aged employee went to his job at the Nu-Wood Decorative Mill Plant, a ma...

It was dawn on the Monday morning after Spring Break. Children were gathering at the bus stops, most likely begrudging the fact that they...

On March 5, 2001, a 15-year-old student began shooting randomly into the courtyard at Santana High School in Santee, California, killing ...

Up to this point in the series, all of the active shooter situations we have analyzed have been at commercial businesses. Between 2000 an...

Active shooter situations don’t normally just happen. Something prompts it, or there were signs of aggression beforehand. People (and I m...

FBI Report: “On January 9, 2001, at 12:00 p.m., the shooter (name removed by author) fatally shot his estranged wife at a convenience st...

December 26 was the 18th anniversary of the Wakefield, Massachusetts shooting at Edgewater Technology. The New York Times described the b...

As Active Shooters have gotten more media coverage in recent years, the argument about gun control has gotten a new sense of life and vit...

The media does an excellent (and maybe too good of a job) at covering active shooter situations in schools. When we think of active shoot...

The April 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting still weighs heavy on the minds of hundreds of people across the US. While it was over ten years ag...