Guns Take Lives

06/03/2022

Shooter shot grandma, crashed car near school, ran into school, and barricaded in 4th grade classroom. 19 children killed, 2 teachers, 2 officers shot. AR15 recovered; no known mental health issues; criminal history.

"I personally can't thank my son's teacher enough," Daniel Garza's mother told ABC News. "I think what she did saved all of their lives."

05/27/2021

"Another reason we may see more workplace attacks is that potential perpetrators, who've likely been in isolation over the last year, have had time to plan, Schildkraut notes. 'One of the things that we know about shooters, especially those who target schools or other specific public spaces, is that they don't usually wake up and snap.'"

Although they're still a statistical anomaly, one explanation for the latest uptick in killings is that with the COVID-19 pandemic, perpetrators have had time to plan their attacks, one expert says.

04/26/2021

Aviva joined KCUR in 2019, impressing her colleagues with her work ethic and strength of purpose.

02/03/2021

Three people are dead in Pennsylvania after an argument over snow shoveling leads to murder-suicide.

Three people, including the shooter, are dead after a dispute over snow shoveling in Plains, Pennsylvania, outside Wilkes-Barre on Monday, Plains Township Police Chief Dale Binker told CNN on Tuesday.

02/04/2020

One of the first things visitors see in the ornate ground floor of Chicago's Cultural Center is four glass houses. Each has 700 glass brick openings — a stark, physical reminder of the average number of people killed by guns each week in the country.

An art installation in Chicago honors gun violence victims, and its organizers hope to make it a national monument. They want to bring widespread attention to what they consider another epidemic.

12/05/2019

Dr. Laurie Punch plunged her gloved hands into Sidney Taylor's open chest in a St. Louis hospital's operating room, pushing on his heart to make it pump again, though a bullet had torn through his flesh, collarbone and lung. His pulse had faded to nothing. She needed to get his heart beating.

Weary of losing neighbors and patients to gunfire, St. Louis trauma surgeon Laurie Punch has a message: Gun violence is contagious, but so is healing. Doctors who teach can be part of the solution.

12/01/2019

The incident took place in the early hours on the well-known Canal St, police said.

06/07/2019

Some 2,501 Americans gave their lives on D-Day, according to historic estimates. Another 1,913 soldiers from other Allied countries also died, bringing the total death toll from the immediate invasion to 4,414.

From January 1, 2019, we blew through that final number in April for the number of Americans killed with a gun.

For 75 years, we have commemorated the brave souls who died on Normandy beaches to protect freedom, and have sought to avoid such a tragedy ever again. Here we are, letting the gun-related deaths from first quarter of 2019 repeat themselves all over again...and again...and again...

By late April, more had died than were killed among all Allied forces.

06/01/2019

"Officials said they had identified two weapons used in the shooting as .45-caliber pistols. The weapons were purchased legally by the shooter in 2016 and 2018. The suspect also has a sound suppressor, the police chief said, along with extended magazines that the suspect reloaded during the shooting."

Eleven of the 12 victims were city employees; one was a contractor. "They leave a void that we will never be able to fill," City Manager Dave Hansen said Saturday.

05/31/2019

Eleven people were killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at a government building in Virginia, police said.

Police say suspect also died during shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center

05/08/2019

"Two suspects are currently in custody. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said one suspect is an adult male and the other is a juvenile male. Both are students at the STEM School. ... The suspects were not previously known to local law enforcement."

Officials say one student was killed and eight were injured in a shooting at a STEM school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Two suspects are in custody.

05/21/2018

"Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made it clear that he thinks the 22 school shootingsin the United States in 2018 can’t be blamed on guns but on violent video games, abortions, unarmed teachers, and a lack of religion in schools, among other things."

He also said guns are "part of who we are as a nation."