2021

• Associated Press – Haunted by violence, Colorado confronts painful history (reprinted nationally)
• Associated Press – Idaho shooting: Very few school incidents committed by girls (reprinted nationally)
• Associated Press – How do we prevent mass shootings? There’s a new website to lead the way (reprinted nationally)
• Boston Globe – Boulder, Colo., shooting that killed 10 was deadliest in US in nearly 2 years
• CNN – Locks, lights, out of sight: How lockdown drills affect America’s children
• C-Span – The Violence Project Book Launch
• Crime Report – Why are almost all mass shooters men?
• Global News – How ending child abuse and improving mental health care could prevent mass shootings
• Guardian – US saw estimated 4,000 extra murders in 2020 amid surge in daily gun violence
• Insider – With schools returning to in person learning, the threat of classroom shootings follows. Here’s how experts say we can prevent them from happening
• KUNM (NPR New Mexico) – No More Normal: Gun violence
• Mental Health Today – Handling associations between violence crime and mental illness with responsibility
• Minnesota Public Radio – New research finds armed officers increases likelihood of mortality at school shootings
• Monitor on Psychology – Mental illness and violence: Debunking myths, addressing realities
• National Public Radio – Why nearly all mass shooters are men
• NBC News – Experts believe a contagion effect could be tied to recent mass shootings
• New York Times – Mass shootings in public spaces had become less frequent during the pandemic
• New York Times – I don’t want to hit my children, I don’t want to hit anybody
• New York Times – A heavily armed man at a grocery store adds to anxiety in Atlanta
• New York Times – First Atlanta, then Boulder: Two mass shootings in a week
• People Magazine – After a year without mass shootings in American public places, there have been 2 in 6 days
• Pioneer Press – In a time of pandemic and riot, crime was up 15 percent in St. Paul last year
• PNJ News – “The Violence Project” book investigates mass shootings in order to find solutions
• Publishers Weekly – How to Prevent a Tragedy
• How to stop a mass shooting epidemic – How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
• Seattle’s Morning News – Armed officers triple mortality in school shootings, study finds
• Star Tribune – Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
• The 74 Million – After a year without mass school shootings, experts sound the alarm about ‘return to normal’
• The 74 Million – Parkland School Shooting Suspect To Plead Guilty to Murdering 17 in Florida Attack, Moving Case Closer to Death Penalty Decision
• The Trace – The way we think about mass shootings ignores many black victims
• USA Today – Immunization not ammunition: School safety means fewer guns
• USA Today – For the COVID pandemic we wear masks. For the pandemic of gun violence, what do we do?
• Vice News – How to prevent the next mass shooting
• Vice News – The Shooter’s Wife: Noor Salman, wife of the pulse nightclub gunman, is ready to speak
• Wall Street Journal – Boulder shooting suspect charged with 10 counts of murder
• Wall Street Journal – America’s failed attempted to ban assault weapons
• Washington Post – As gun violence spreads to small towns, one suburb contends with a mass shooting’s aftermath
• Washington Post – Rising and spreading murder rates means it’s time to act on guns
• WBEZ Radio Chicago – Atlanta, Boulder tragedies are stark reminder mass shootings may be part of our ‘return to normal’
• Wisconsin Public Radio – How to stop the mass shooting epidemic, according to researchers who have chronicled every mass shooting in the US
• WWL Radio New Orleans – Mass shootings in the US

2020

• ABC Tampa – New database tracks commonalities among mass shooters
• Associated Press – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
• Bloomberg News – Virus job losses, evictions seen risking mass attacks in future
• Business Insider – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
• Finanical Times – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
• KETK Fox News Austin – No mass shootings in the U.S. since the pandemic started – what about once its over?
• LA Times – How many mass shootings might have been prevented by stronger gun laws?
• Minnesota Public Radio – Do police officers belong in schools?
• NBC News – How moms are quietly passing gun safety policy through school boards
• Newsy – Minnesota calls for increased oversight of police training goals
• Post Bulletin – NEA Report: Just say no to active shooter drills
• Star Tribune – Minneapolis police, merchants wary of rise in business burglaries
• The Takeaway – Parents are fighting gun violence through their school boards
• The Trace – 2020 will be a big year for the gun issue
• The Trace – Expanded mass shootings database fleshes out the characteristics of perpetrators
• Vice News – This woman survived a mass shooting and is working to prevent the next
• Voices of America – History of mass shooters
• Washington Post – In a year of pain, one silver lining: Fewer mass shootings
• Yahoo News – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
• Yahoo News UK – US gun violence: Too many people have died in 2020 – and COVID played a larger part than you think

2019 – selected

• ABC News – Campaign says new gun control measures may pose political problem for Trump
• Associated Press – Minnesota Violence Project Aims to Understand Mass Shootings
• Associated Press – Experts: Minnesota strategy on school gun attacks wrong
• The Atlantic – Why many mass shooters are ‘loners’
• Business Insider – Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences
• CBS News – Video game makers face backlash after El Paso shooting
• CBS News – Mental Illness isn’t main driver of mass shootings, experts say
• CBS This Morning – Commonalities found among mass shooters
• CNN – Companies can use VR to train employees for mass shootings. But should they?
• Daily Mail – Almost all US mass shooters since 1966 have four things in common
• The Daily Wire – Report details stunning amount of free publicity media gives mass shooters
• FiveThirtyEight – Why nonprofits can’t research gun violence as well as the feds
• The Hill – Mass shooters are contagious. How can they be stopped
• Huffington Post – Mass shooters seek ‘validation’ for their murderous attacks, say experts for DOJ
• Inside Higher Ed – Mass Shooter Database?
• Market Watch – Can anything be done to prevent gun violence at work?
• Medium – Why isn’t there already an algorithm to predict school shooters?
• National Public Radio – Mass shootings can be contagious, research shows
• National Public Radio – 1A with Joshua Johnson – How can we prevent workplace shootings?
• NBC News – How suicide prevention may help stop mass killers before they start shooting
• NBC News National – Mass shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
• NBC News National – Do Something!’: Mass shootings in Texas and Ohio stun nation: The Morning Rundown
• NBC News MSN – Mass Shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
• New York Times – A common trait among mass killers: hatred toward women
• Newsweek – Gen Z, millennials twice as concerned about active shooters as baby boomers, survey
• ProPublica – Aggression detectors: The unproven, invasive surveillance technology school’s are using to monitor students
• Reader’s Digest – Years of research finds that most school shooters have 4 things in common
• Time Magazine – Have police really thwarted more mass shootings since El Paso and Dayton, or are we just paying closer attention?
• The Trace – Daily Bulletin: The FBI Opened a Domestic Terror Investigation into the Gilroy Shooting
• USA Today – A New York village averted a potential school shooting. Parents are still furious.
• Vice – Nearly all mass shooters since 1966 have had 4 things in common
• Wall Street Journal – Lost in life, El Paso suspect found a dark world online
• Wall Street Journal – Mass shootings raise questions about security and training
• Washington Post – Trump blamed mental illness for mass shootings. The reality is more complicated
• Washington Post – Politicians blame video games for the El Paso shooting. It’s an old claim that’s not backed by research
• WITF Smart Talk – Research on mass shooters