MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Alan Blinder & Daniel Victor @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 23
ATLANTA — On Tuesday, it was a high school in small-town Kentucky. On Monday, a school cafeteria outside Dallas and a charter school parking lot in New Orleans. And before that, a school bus in Iowa, a college campus in Southern California, a high school in Seattle.
Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking. Now it seems to happen all the time.
The scene in Benton, Ky., on Tuesday was the worst so far in 2018: Two 15-year-old students were killed and 18 more people were injured. But it was one of at least 11 shootings on school property recorded since Jan. 1, and roughly the 50th of the academic year.
Researchers and gun control advocates say that since 2013, they have logged school shootings at a rate of about one a week [....]
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Teenage Kentucky school shooting suspect to face murder charges as adult
by Corky Siemaszko @ NBCNews.com, Jan. 24, 6:24 pm
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4 students hit by gunfire at Los Angeles school; 12-year-old girl in custody
By Sonya Hamasaki, Stella Chan, Jason Hanna and Steve Almasy @ CNN, Updated 7:14 PM ET, Thu February 1, 2018
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