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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 during active shooter si...

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 West Palm Beach, Fl...

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 celebratory dinner. A mom an...

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 stopped by civilians...

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

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

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 walked into the Tom Brad...

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

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 manufacturing facility...

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

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

Up to this point in the series, all of the active shooter situations we have analyzed have been at commercial businesses. Between 2000 and 2017, Santana High...

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

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 store they owned in Ho...

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

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

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

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 ago, this was one of t...