Another dreadful school massacre in the US raises the question: Will Americans ever get to grips with the ghastly phenomenon?
Supporters of the bill say armed teachers could save lives in the event of a school shooting
Lesufi says a father allegedly shot and killed his son outside Fred Norman Secondary School in Ennerdale
Within minutes of the shooting at YouTube offices in California, social media was awash with conspiracy theories
America’s long moribund gun control debate was revived by survivors of the Parkland shooting and now the minimum age to buy firearms in Florida is 21
The president signalled his support for improving background gun checks amid mounting pressure for reform in the wake of the Florida school shooting
The president’s comments came as he faces criticism from survivors of the attack over his ties to the powerful National Rifle Association
Authorities warned late on Wednesday that the death toll could rise as some of the more than 14 people who were wounded were in critical condition
A teenager described as a model student has shot a teacher and a police officer dead and took more than 20 of his schoolmates hostage.
The pupil who opened fire at his US high school last week apparently planned to attack at least five different areas, investigators said on Tuesday.
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A 12-year-old Nevada pupil has shot dead a teacher, critically wounded two classmates and turned the gun on himself at his school.
A 20-year old man has surrendered to the police after opening fire at a school east of Atlanta in the US.
When classes at Clarksville High resume, more than 20 teachers and other employees in the US school district will be carrying concealed weapons.
The powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby has declared that guns and police officers are needed in all American schools.
The schools in Newtown will return to classes, four days after a gunman shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
President Barack Obama has demanded changes in the way the US dealt with gun violence, at a memorial held for the massacre of 20 schoolchildren.
President Barack Obama was due in the community of Newtown on Sunday to join in a vigil for the 20 children and seven adults slaughtered by a gunman.
An ex-student, suspected of opening fire at a Christian college in the US, was targeting a school administrator who he felt had treated him unfairly.
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/ 8 December 2011
An unknown gunman has shot and killed two people at Virginia Tech in the US and the campus has been put under lockdown.
At a sun-scorched Murundu cemetery in west Rio de Janerio, the families of three young girls gathered to say their final farewells.
The death toll from a school shooting in Brazil was raised late on Thursday as authorities said a 13-year-old boy had succumbed to his injuries.
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/ 30 November 2010
A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a Wisconsin high school, shooting himself as police broke in.
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/ 28 September 2008
Finland’s president joined grievers at church in western Finland on Sunday morning for a memorial service for the victims of a school massacre.
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/ 28 September 2008
According to the official statistics, 45 people in Finland were killed by knives in 2006 and 10 by guns.
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/ 28 September 2008
Finns have been shaken by this week’s college massacre. But is such a tragedy only to be expected where gun ownership is so high?
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/ 24 September 2008
Finland said it would toughen its gun laws after Tuesday’s school massacre, as police landed in the hot seat.
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/ 24 September 2008
Finland mourned the dead of its second school shooting in less than a year, and questioned whether it was time to clamp down on private gun ownership.
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/ 23 September 2008
A student shot dead nine people at a school in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, local media and authorities said.
Andrew Clark reports on the school where teachers carry a pen, a ruler and … a gun.
It seems that massacres at American schools and universities are becoming as traditional as the Fourth of July, or, as one newspaper put it, apple pie.