Results for school shooting

  1. San Diego County Gun Owners Deliver Fresh Perspective on ‘School Shooting’ Numbers https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/11/05/san-diego…livers-fresh-perspective-on-school-shooting-numbers-n1234378
    as a school shooting that most reasonable people would agree does not fit the bill would be a potential drug deal gone wrong. … of actual school shootings versus what’s reported.The criteria that Schwartz used to define a school shooting are as follows:We counted … “We found that since 1999, there have been 126 total since the 1999 Columbine school shooting.…
  2. Ryan Petty's Coverage of Bend Shooting a Must-Listen https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/10/24/petty-coverage-bend-shooting-must-listen-n1234222
    for Mark Walters on Armed American Radio earlier this week, and did an excellent job of covering the recent shooting … at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. … Pacific time last Thursday, somebody called into 911 to say a kid with a shotgun had just shot at his truck outside an elementary school…
  3. NRA-ILA’s Dan Reid Talks About State-Level Affairs and More https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/08/31/nra-ilas-dan-reid-talks-about-state-level-affairs-and-more-n1233676
    A long-time employee of the Association's, Reid said his journey started when he was in law school. … involvement during the conversation.One of the things that caught Reid’s attention was the lack of Second Amendment coverage in law school … “I was getting into the shooting sports and into hunting,” Reid said.…
  4. Sheriff Ken Campbell Talks Gunsite 50th Anniversary and More https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/07/20/sheriff-ken-campbell-talks-gunsite-50th-anniversary-and-more-n1233220
    “We're not a competition-based school,” he said. … “And then, being many of us are cigar guys, we're having a Gunsite label cigar as part of our celebration … Because shooting and a…
  5. Garrett Mason Interview: 2026 Maine GOP Gubernatorial Candidate https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/05/12/garrett-ma…on-interview-2026-maine-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-n1232481
    “(I’m) passionate about education, school choice and government waste and spending; … I'm the only candidate in this race who's actually … state who worked really hard to find a compromise that felt like (it) met the muster of most people after the horrific Lewiston shooting … If the yellow flag law simply would have been followed, that shooting may not have happened, and we weren't even implementing the laws…
  6. Bobby Charles Interview: 2026 Maine GOP Gubernatorial Candidate https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/05/10/bobby-char…es-interview-2026-maine-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-n1232480
    One is just target shooting. One is, which I do, some is hunting. Some is self-defense. … That's why gun-free school zones don't work. … We can get this back under control.And then I want to get our school system back under control.…
  7. New Online Women’s 2A Group About to Launch https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2026/03/16/new-online-womens-2a-group-about-to-launch-n1231874
    collaborate.TerryAnn Bowen is one of the co-owners of Manchester Firing Line in New Hampshire and the founder of Iron Rose Women’s shooting … “I designed Iron Rose women's shooting club online community — which is a national community — and it's designed to be an ecosystem … It’s set up very much like an old-school traditional bulletin board system — for those of you old enough to remember the AOL and Prodigy…
  8. Talking GOA’s Empowered 2A With Terra Semaia https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/20/talking-goas-empowered-2a-with-terra-semaia-n1230672
    For example, he said that “there's absolutely no reason a mom dropping her kids off at school [should have] to disarm because she's … driving through a school property or even going inside a school.” … Let's go shooting,” Velleco closed with. “And maybe it will change your perspective.…
  9. Event Fashioned to 'Bridge Divide' Raises Eyebrows https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/09/02/event-fashioned-to-bridge-divide-raises-eyebrows-n1226082
    Walsh is an ardent gun rights advocate, and Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland School shooting,…
  10. North Jersey Friends of the NRA Dinner a Historic Event! https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/11/04/north-jersey-friends-of-the-nra-dinner-a-historic-event-n1226777
    Money goes to national programs like Women on Target, Eddie Eagle, School Shield, NRA Hunter Education,” Nyce explained. … From supporting worthy projects such as promoting firearm safety to range improvements to youth shooting programs, Friends events are … critical to the future of the shooting sports,” said NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Doug Hamlin.…
  11. San Diego County Gun Owners Hosted One of a Kind Gun Show https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/03/12/san-diego-county-gun-owners-hosted-one-of-a-kind-gun-show-n1224146
    The parents don't talk about that with their kids because they're afraid of their kids going to school or going to a friend's house … defense: Lessons learned from recent San Diego CCW cases - Gary Gibson, USCCA Featured PresentationIntro long range precision shooting…
  12. Liberty Bell Friends of the NRA Dinner in Philly a Success https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/04/05/liberty-bell-friends-of-the-nra-dinner-in-philly-a-success-n1228200
    Funds raised through the group go directly back to fostering and supporting the shooting sports. … “My table had four retired school teachers who have been coming to Friends of NRA banquets for many years,“ Bachenberg said when asked … Our Friends of NRA banquets are one of the last defenses in supporting youth shooting sports and American history.”Hamlin was asked…
  13. Crime Prevention Research Center’s Commissioned Survey on ‘Gun Violence’ Results https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2024/12/30/crime-prev…centers-commissioned-survey-on-gun-violence-results-n1227245
    Another question that Rasmussen asked was, “Police say a 15-year-old girl shot and killed two people and wounded six others at a school … The numbers in support of stricter gun control is up from a similar survey in 2023 after the Lewiston, Maine shooting, which was 44%…
  14. CCRKBA to California: You’re Being a Bad Bad Boy. New Law is Bigotry! https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/01/07/ccrkba-to…fornia-youre-being-a-bad-bad-boy-new-law-is-bigotry-n1227294
    “California won’t wait until the next school shooting or mass shooting to act.…
  15. NY SAFE Act chronicles part 3: Barriers to care created by a misguided system https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2023/08/14/ny-safe-ac…part-3-barriers-to-care-created-by-a-misguided-system-n73638
    The New York SAFE Act was implemented in the dead of night, under cloak and dagger, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School … shooting.…
  16. New Jersey Governor Murphy Announces More Assaults on Civil Liberties https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2021/04/16/new-jersey…nor-murphy-announces-more-assaults-on-civil-liberties-n43632
    Additional Measures Regulating School Shooting Drills: New Jersey schools currently are required to conduct active shooter exercises…
  17. Broward County Schools Superintendent Arrested On Perjury Charges https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2021/04/22/broward-superintendent-perjury-n43996
    More than three years after the Parkland shooting in 2018, parents and critics of the failures of the Broward County Public Schools … Since the shooting, Runcie and district administrators have been accused by critics of lying about school crime rates and discipline … Myrick, the school district’s attorney.…
  18. Congresswoman reintroduces gun ‘safe storage’ bill https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2023/02/26/congresswoman-reintroduces-gun-safe-storage-bill-n67810
    The bill was first introduced after the deadly mass shooting at Oxford High School in November 2021 and passed in the House in June…
  19. Oregon group warns of potential hidden pitfalls in bill https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2023/02/21/oregon-group-warns-of-potential-hidden-pitfalls-in-bill-n67592
    Senate Bill 551, in its original, unamended form “Requires school districts to provide specified information related to secure storage … Directs Oregon Health Authority to make information available to school districts.” … Other challenges probably included gun owning Oregonians getting more opportunities to take their kids out shooting because of all…
  20. Bill Introduced To Require Dealers To Include Suicide Hotline Information https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2021/10/18/bill-intro…equire-dealers-to-include-suicide-hotline-information-n51066
    The National Shooting Sports Foundation also has valuable information and resources available on suicide awareness/prevention. … I'm again of the school of thought that voluntary compliance to things will yield better results. … I'm also of the school of thought that the government should, if they want this kind of labeling on products that are constitutionally…
  21. Article Raises A Good Point About "Mass Shootings" https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2021/11/27/article-raises-a-good-point-about-mass-shootings-n52571
    The definition of school shooting can be conflated as was also reported by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. … country reported it to be the seventeenth school shooting of the year. … Basically a school shooting can occur when school is not in session with people that are meeting for say a drug deal, in the middle…
  22. Bill introduced mandating gun storage requirements https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/01/15/bill-introduced-mandating-gun-storage-requirements-n54369
    Slotkin will introduce the bill in the wake of the shooting at Oxford High School on November 30, which left 4 teenage students dead … introducing this bill because of the destructive role the parents of the killer had on the lives of four teenagers at Oxford High School…
  23. Bill introduced to create “active shooter” alert system https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/02/05/bill-introduced-to-create-active-shooter-alert-system-n55142
    Often called “mass shootings” there’s actually no classification in our FBI crime definitions that refers to “mass shooting”, but rather … The scope of said threats can be narrow, as in a workplace violence event, or large, like the Vegas shooting. … I’ll continue to seek solutions by listening to local law enforcement, community leaders and our school officials.…
  24. Storage bill a litigation and laundering scheme in disguise https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/02/19/storage-bill-a-litigation-and-laundering-scheme-in-disguise-n55617
    Children finding easy access to firearms contribute to preventable tragedies, such as school shootings, youth suicides and unintentional … shooting deaths among children. … district, or other political subdivision of a State, or of or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized…
  25. House resolution salutes heroes involved in school shooting https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/03/13/house-conc…resolution-salutes-heroes-involved-in-school-shooting-n56333
    A shooting at a school in Kansas that took place over a week ago had an outcome that might not fit the rubric of what the anti-freedom … No one wants to see a shooting of any kind occur, especially on school grounds. … A Kansas high school principal and school resource officer were shot at Olathe East High School in Kansas Friday, and Olathe Police…