#mass-shootings

#mass-shootings

On Sept. 28, 2025, at least four people were killed and eight others injured during a Sunday service at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Just a month earlier, two people died and 21 were injured during a Mass for students at the Catholic Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis. These tragedies may feel sudden and senseless, but they are part of a longer pattern that we have been tracking.

[T]he highest order of business" for journalists is to try and get to the facts without giving shooters the attention they seek, but that's become more difficult with this new wave of "performative" attacks,Terence Samuel, chair of the National Press Foundation Board of Directors and former editor-in-chief at USA Today, told Axios. Threat level: Theinternet subculture that fosters and spreads extremist communities online isn't going anywhere, and journalists have to learn how to navigate the toxic ideology they put out.

Previously, the routine would be we express our shock; we express our sadness; we offer our thoughts and prayers; we spend a day, maybe two, arguing about the appropriateness of bringing up guns at all; and then we do nothing until the next time. But as our politics becomes more polarized, even that learned cycle of helplessness has been replaced by a new, post-shooting pastime. That new pastime is, Was this one of yours?'

The North Carolina shooting erupted about 9.30pm near a popular stretch of bars and restaurants on Southport's waterfront, a historic port town about 30 miles (48km) south of Wilmington. Investigators said the assailant piloted a small boat close to shore, stopped briefly and fired into the crowd before speeding away. Roughly half an hour later, a US coast guard crew spotted a person matching the suspect's description pulling a boat from the water at a public ramp on nearby Oak Island.

After every school shooting, mass shooting, or act of targeted political violence, I've noticed a heartbreaking and consistent theme in my work with families. Mothers often come to me with the same fearful question:"Why does this keep happening with boys-and is my son at risk too?" Most recently, one mother sat across from me, exhausted and tearful, asking if her parenting was somehow creating a "narcissist" in her son. She feared what she was seeing-and even more, what it might mean.

Within minutes of Kirk's death, with the assassin still on the loose and with no proof of what the shooter's motives were, Trump and his allies declared that now was the time to use the full force of the state to, according to at least some of Trump's more outspoken supporters, eradicate the leftist menace. Some talked of a civil war; others of the need to "exterminate" people they see as "anarcho-terrorists."

Last week, a 23-year-old man who, according to police, was obsessed with previous mass shooters, opened fire at a school in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 18 others. It was the latest mass shooting to make headlines, and it ended the way most of them do, with the gunman killing himself. In highly publicized cases, the horror looms large in the public consciousness.

You know, 96% of attackers when you're looking at the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, looking at 172 mass attacks in the US between 2016 and 2020 96% were non-trans men, Keilar said. So I know you're focusing on this shooter being trans. The shooter was trans and that is certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic and you perhaps miss the through line that connects them all?

MINNEAPOLIS - Hundreds of people in the U.S. have died in mass shootings over the past 25 years in offices, stores, theaters and other places, but the carnage perhaps hits hardest when it happens in schools and colleges where children and young adults are often the victims. In some cases, the victims are children who still have some of their baby teeth. Others are newly adult students with career and family dreams, and teachers or religious leaders who frequently become role models and mentors to their young students. Wednesday's mass shooting at a church where Catholic school students were attending Mass in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the latest in a long list of attacks targeting students since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.

But Bruce then echoed comments from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) who rejected the calls for thoughts and prayers. As you heard from the mayor there in his heartfelt remarks saying, you know, praying isn't enough at this point, Bruce said. These children were quite literally praying when they were gunned down.

Three individuals, aged 18, 19, and 65, were reported to be in stable condition following a shooting incident, as stated by an NYPD spokesperson.

Safety design experts say that preventative techniques work best. Threat mitigation should begin with the building design process, says Peggy Phillips, who leads engineering consulting firm Thornton Tomasetti's Protective Design and Security practice.

I was a very young prosecutor when Columbine happened, and Columbine was the high school immediately to the south of where I graduated from high school.