News Stories

The following links will direct you to local and national news stories that have featured Jaclyn’s research. To read a story in full, click on the article title (the link will open in a new window, so be sure your pop-up blocker is disabled).

NOTE: Articles with an asterisk (*) indicates that no direct interview was provided. Information was reprinted by source from an interview in an alternate publication.

• Unanswered questions linger behind Colorado mass shootings (Courthouse News Service, 5/1/2021)

• Certain Colorado mass shootings prompt change. Other gun deaths don’t.* (Canon City Daily Record, 4/12/2021)

• Certain Colorado mass shootings prompt change. Other gun deaths don’t. (Denver Post, 4/11/2021)

• Lockdown drills have been changed by COVID-19 (The Oswegonian, 4/8/2021)

• Fact-checking ‘The View’ host Joy Behar on mass shootings and the assault weapons ban* (Poynter, 3/26/2021)

• Fact-checking Joy Behar on mass shootings and the assault weapons ban (PolitiFact, 3/25/2021)

• Staying safe and healthy in school as districts look to return full-time (CNYCentral.com, 3/25/2021)

• SUNY Oswego professor who’s an expert on mass shootings joins NewsChannel 9 for interview (LocalSYR.com, 3/24/2021)

• Before the Boulder massacre, multiple mass shootings in Colorado have led to only modest changes in its gun laws (Business Insider, 3/24/2021)

• Supermarket rampage | ABC News March 23, 2001 (ABC News / World News Now, 3/23/2021)

• Parkland school shooting parents share thoughts on Colorado mass shooting* (WPTV.com, 3/23/2021)

• How the 1996 Dunblane massacre pushed the U.K. to enact stricter gun laws (Smithsonian Magazine, 3/12/2021)

• Locks, lights, out of sight: How lockdown drills affect American’s children (CNN, 3/10/2021)

• Judge was right not to name Yonge St. mass killer in her judgment* (Toronto Star, 3/3/2021)

• SUNY Oswego professor co-launches mass violence research journal (WRVO, 3/1/2021)

• SUNY Oswego professor honors hometown in her work (The Oswegonian, 2/12/2021)

• SUNY Oswego faculty member co-launches criminology journal* (NNY360, 2/9/2021)

• SUNY Oswego faculty member co-launches criminology journal* (The Palladium-Times, 1/28/2021)

• SUNY Oswego faculty member co-launches criminology journal* (i Heart Oswego, 1/28/2021)

• Re-designing active shooter drills amid the pandemic (LocalSYR.com, 12/2/2020)

• Cards for kids: Local campaign offering support for families across the country (LocalSYR.com, 11/25/2020)

• Active shooter drills are still required for schools but look different during COVID-19 (Scripps National / KXLH (Helena), 11/23/2020)

• SUNY Oswego faculty member again collecting cards for mass shootings victims, families (Oswego County Today, 11/18/2020)

• Cards for Kids: SUNY Oswego professor, community send hope to grieving families (CNYCentral.com, 11/13/2020)

• The pandemic impacting the future of emergency drills in schools (CNYCentral.com, 11/1/2020)

• Professor collecting cards to send to families impacted by mass shootings (Spectrum News, 10/16/2020)

• New Criminal Justice course added with personal significance (The Oswegonian, 7/20/2020)

• School shootings, shooting drills, student stress (Downtown News Magazine, 2/25/2020)

• Exercises against shootings in the United States worry [Translated with Google Translate] (LaCroix [France], 2/14/2020)

• Schools should heed calls to do lockdown drills without traumatizing kids instead of abolishing them (The Conversation, 2/12/2020)

• ALICE is overstating the effectiveness of its active shooter trainings (The Trace, 1/8/2020)

• Kids send prayers, advice to Borderline community through holiday cards (Ventura County Star, 1/3/2020)

• ALICE Training Institute is the company behind America’s scariest school-shooter drills (Teen Vogue, 1/2/2020)

• Oswego professor collects thousands of holiday cards for kids impacted by mass shootings (WRVO, 12/16/2019)

• The company behind America’s scariest school shooter drills (Huffington Post, 12/13/2019)

• The company behind America’s scariest school shooter drills (The Trace, 12/13/2019)

• SUNY Oswego faculty collaborate for book on capital punishment in movies* (Oswego County Today, 12/12/2019)

• Faculty member again coordinates holiday card drive for kids impacted by mass shootings* (Oswego County Today, 12/5/2019)

• Local professor leads initiative offering comfort for communities struck by violence (LocalSYR.com, 12/4/2019)

• Study finds graphic active shooter drills instill fear in students instead of helping, but what are the other options? Experts weigh in (MEAWW, 12/3/2019)

• Faculty member again coordinates holiday card drive for kids impacted by mass shootings (SUNY Oswego, 12/2/2019)

• Local professor collecting cards for children impacted by mass shootings (Spectrum News, 11/29/2019)

• Banning large capacity gun magazines could reduce mass shooting deaths: Study (Reuters, 11/26/2019)

• Do lockdown drills do any good? (The Conversation, 11/22/2019)

• Oswego professor sends Christmas cards to victims (The Oswegonian, 11/21/2019)

• Mass shootings are contagious. How can they be stopped? (The Hill, 11/5/2019)

• Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings? (The Conversation, 10/22/2019)

• ’We didn’t know it was going to be this big’ (The Palladium-Times, 10/18/2019)

• Teaching from local mass shooting expert gaining national attention (LocalSYR.com, 10/16/2019)

• Student lockdown drills are out of control (Minnesota Star-Tribune, 10/15/2019)

• Lockdown drills: An American quirk, out of control (The Washington Post, 10/11/2019)

• Some news outlets advocate ‘No Notoriety,’ but what’s lost when we don’t name a shooter? (KUT / Texas Standard, 10/3/2019)

• Onondaga County schools implement safety measures (The Daily Orange, 9/30/2019)

• Op-Ed: Mass violence attacks: Five ways communities can prepare for the unthinkable (The Crime Report, 9/16/2019)

• Controversy over Sandy Hook Promise video (CNYCentral.com, 9/13/2019)

• UP reviews mass shooter, emergency plan (The Oswegonian, 9/13/2019)

• Op-Ed: The push to not name mass shooters is growing (Empire Report, 9/10/2019)

• America must tackle its media before it can change its gun laws* (The Boar, 9/5/2019)

• School shootings and lockdowns: How do kids cope? (WebMD, 8/16/2019)

• Donald Trump says he’s done more than other presidents to solve the gun problem. Has he? (PolitiFact, 8/8/2019)

• Hanson misfires on US mass shooting claim* (7News [Australia], 8/7/2019)

• Trump condemns hate, but is that enough to stop the shootings? (MPR News, 8/5/2019)

• The viral tweet about mass shootings by country? It needs additional context (PolitiFact, 8/5/2019)

• State comptroller releases school emergency planning report* (LocalSYR.com, 7/25/2019)

• A ‘morbid fascination’ with Columbine might lead to its shuttering* (Pacific Standard, 6/10/2019)

• Mass shootings transform how America talks, prays, prepares* (The Oakland Press, 6/9/2019)

• Mass shootings transform how America talks, prays, prepares* (Business Mirror, 6/9/2019)

• Mass shootings change how Americans deal with tragedy* (Voices of America, 6/3/2019)

• Mass shootings transform how America talks, prays, prepares (Associated Press/AP News, 6/3/2019)

• Mass shootings create rippling network of stricken survivors* (KSNB Hastings, 6/2/2019)

• Heroism during Colorado shooting praised, but some worry coverage will push kids to put themselves in harm’s way* (East Bay Times [Reprint from The Denver Post], 5/17/2019)

• Run, hide or fight? Heroism during Colorado shooting praised, but some worry coverage will push kids to put themselves in harm’s way (The Denver Post, 5/17/2019)

• The push to not name mass shooters is catching on* (New York Magazine, 5/9/2019)

• Columbine largely rewrote script for how US thinks of mass shootings (Sputnik News, 4/21/2019)

• Columbine High School 20 years later, the difficult “normality” survived [Translated with Google Translate] (Vanity Fair Italy, 4/20/2019)

• On Columbine 20th anniversary, SUNY Oswego’s Jaclyn Schildkraut on what we should take away (WAER Syracuse, 4/19/2019)

• How Columbine gave rise to threat assessment teams (PoliceOne, 4/19/2019)

• How effective are school lockdown drills? (National Public Radio [Reprint from Colorado Public Radio], 4/19/2019)

• The Columbine blueprint (The Atlantic, 4/19/2019)

• How Columbine went viral (The 74, 4/19/2019)

• Columbine, 20: Shots that still echo in history [Translated with Google Translate] (R7 / Record TV [Brazil], 3/15/2019)

• Columbine massacre: 20 years on, has anything changed?* (The Week UK, 4/16/2019)

• 20 years after Columbine shooting, little has been accomplished on gun control (The Denver Post, 4/14/2019)

• 20 years after Columbine shooting, little has been accomplished on gun control (Daily Record Colorado [Reprint from The Denver Post], 4/14/2019)

• Since Columbine: How effective are lockdown drills? There’s little data, but one researcher wants to find out (Colorado Public Radio, 4/8/2019)

• 13 were murdered in Binghamton in 2009. Why has the world forgotten? (Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin / PressConnects, 3/27/2019)

• Expert: You can cover mass shootings without saying the perpetrator’s name (WCAI, 3/24/2019)

• The case for denying mass killers fame in order to fight the deadly ‘contagion effect’ (CBC [Canada], 3/20/2019)

• New Zealand prime minister on mosque shooter: “You will never hear me mention his name”* (Vox, 3/19/2019)

• Kellyanne Conway’s stunningly irresponsible advice: Read New Zealand mosque shooter’s manifesto* (Vox, 3/18/2019)

• Footage from New Zealand attack goes mostly unaired by news outlets* (The Hill, 3/16/2019)

• News outlets mostly avoided publishing the video of the New Zealand attacks (NBC News, 3/15/2019)

• Not the case in Brazil: The astonishment of the vice Hamilton Mourão reflects the general indignation, but the country seems to have definitely imported insanity of random firing [Translated with Google Translate] (Veja Magazine [Brazil], 3/15/2019)

• For a SUNY Oswego professor, mass shootings are more than just research (LocalSYR.com, 2/15/2019)

• Fact check: Congressman says school shootings happen once a week* (Austin American-Statesman, 2/14/2019)

• Was there one school shooting a week in 2018, as a Florida lawmaker said? (Politifact, 2/11/2019)

• Sally Yates, others lined up for Emory Law symposium on gun violence* (Daily Report/Law.com, 1/8/2019)

• ‘Mass casualties happen in places that forbid firearms’ – ex-US official (Sputnik News [Russia], 1/7/2019)

• How journalists cover mass shootings: 5 recent studies to consider* (Journalist’s Resources, 12/5/2018)

• Oswego professor sending cards to the families of mass shooting victims for the holidays (LocalSYR.com, 12/2/2018)

• Professor hosting holiday card drive for shooting-affected kids (Spectrum News, 11/29/2018)

• Oswego professor coordinates holiday card drive for children impacted by mass shootings (CNYCentral.com, 11/29/2018)

• Oswego faculty member coordinates holiday card drive for children impacted by mass shootings (Oswego County Today, 11/29/2018)

• Ex-soldier kills 12 people in a shooting in a bar in California [Translated with Google Translate] (El Mercurio [Chile], 11/9/2018)

• Guard, officer killed in the nation’s latest mass shooting, stoking debate about active-shooter defenses (The Washington Post, 11/8/2018)

• CBS News inaccurately names AR-15 as mass shooters’ ‘weapon of choice’* (Breitbart News, 11/4/2018)

• Armed guards won’t stop mass shootings like Pittsburgh (Huffington Post, 10/29/2018)

• First F-M safety and security task force meeting held (Eagle News Online, 10/8/2018)

• Fayetteville-Manlius school safety task force meets for first time (LocalSYR.com, 10/2/2018)

• Op-Ed: Why the coverage of mass shootings continues to miss the mark and how to fix it (The Hill, 9/30/2018)

• The facts on guns in 6 charts: A 2018 midterm report (PolitiFact, 9/30/2018)

• When it comes to mass shooters, there’s a clear gender divide* (Boise State Public Radio, 9/24/2018)

• Former Columbine High School principal to hold community forum in Weedsport (Auburn Citizen, 9/22/2018)

• How unusual are female mass shooters? Very rare, says expert (WXYZ Detroit, 9/21/2018)

• How unusual are female mass shooters? Very rare, says expert (The Denver Channel, 9/21/2018)

• How unusual are female mass shooters? Very rare, says expert (KSHB Kansas City, 9/21/2018)

• Fact Check: Have assault weapons been used in ‘hundreds’ of school shootings? (The Daily Caller / CheckYourFact.com, 9/21/2018)

• Onondaga County has a plan to protect students from school shootings. Elected officials and experts believe it’s feasible. (The Daily Orange, 9/18/2018)

• Does the U.S. lead the world in mass shootings? (The Washington Post, 9/6/2018)

• Should parents be arming their kids with bulletproof backpacks? (MyTwinTiers.com, 8/30/2018)

• CNY parents weigh in on bulletproof backpacks (LocalSYR.com, 8/29/2018)

• Jacksonville, Florida shooting hits close to home for CNY woman (LocalSYR.com, 8/27/2018)

• CNY schools considering initiatives from school safety task force, including Stop the Bleed (WRVO, 8/27/2018)

• Skaneateles school board brings up idea of returning security guards* (Auburn Citizen, 8/15/2018)

• Skaneateles school district formulating safety plans (Auburn Citizen, 7/26/2018)

• Does the media have a problem with the coverage of mass shootings? (BBC News, 5/31/2018)

• There has been an uptick in ‘active shooter’ incidents. Experts know exactly what to blame.* (The Blaze, 5/20/2018)

• Experts weigh in on security and safety after the school shooting in Texas (CNYCentral.com, 5/19/2018)

• What female mass shooters reveal about male ones (Daily Beast, 5/19/2018)

• The facts on mass shootings, guns in the United States* (Politifact, 5/18/2018)

• Trump’s response to the Santa Fe High School shooting was pretty nonchalant* (Elite Daily, 5/18/2018)

• Mass shooting expert: ‘I think we’re missing the bigger picture’ (LocalSYR.com, 5/18/2018)

• The other gender gap* (The Overtake, 5/9/2018)

• 2017 had more active shootings than previous years. Here’s what researchers say is going on. (Buzzfeed News, 5/4/2018)

• Town hall: Safe at school (CNYCentral.com, 5/1/2018)

• Town hall: Let’s talk about school safety (CNYCentral.com, 5/1/2018)

• The briefing: Some perspectives amid the carnage (The Buffalo News, 4/25/2018)

• NRA: 15 revealing quotes on gun control* (TheCheatSheet.com, 4/22/2018)

• ‘Never forget’: Binghamton marks 9th anniversary of American Civic Association shooting (NewYorkUpstate.com, 4/10/2018)

• YouTube HQ shooting leaves 3 people in hospital* (BestInAustralia.com, 4/8/2018)

• YouTube shooter wasn’t a scorned lover, but many thought so (The Eagle, 4/7/2018)

• Why did the media assume YouTube shooter was a spurned lover? (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 4/7/2018)

• YouTube shooter wasn’t a scorned lover – so why did so many jump to that conclusion? (The Mercury News, 4/7/2018)

• Why it’s extremely rare for women to perpetrate mass shootings in the U.S. (Calgary Herald, 4/6/2018)

• Why it’s extremely rare for women to perpetrate mass shootings in the U.S. (The National Post [Canada], 4/6/2018)

• The YouTube attack was uncommon in one key way: The shooter was a woman. Here’s why that’s rare. (The Lily [Washington Post], 4/4/2018)

• ‘US gun violence so common YouTube HQ incident doesn’t even qualify as mass shooting’ (Russia Today [RT], 4/4/2018)

• YouTube shooting: Nasim Aghdam shoots 3 before killing herself at San Bruno HQ* (CBS News, 4/4/2018)

• Female suspect in mass shootings “very uncommon,” researcher says (CBS News Crimesider 4/4/2018)

• YouTube headquarters shooting: Woman suspect found dead* (WFMY News, 4/3/2018)

• OzSpeaks speaker series tackles issues of gun control (The Oswegonian, 3/29/2018)

• For SUNY Oswego mass shootings expert, the goal is to keep victims from becoming a number (Syracuse Post-Standard / Syracuse.com, 4/23/2018)

• Beset by school violence, US and Nigeria consider each other’s experience (Public Radio International [PRI], 4/16/2018)

• Do 1 percent of gun sellers supply more than half of all the guns used in crimes? (Tampa Bay Times / PolitiFact, 3/16/2018)

• Beset by school violence, US and Nigeria consider each other’s experiences* (North Carolina Public Radio, 3/16/2018)

• Ted Cruz (in a song) says Beto O’Rourke wants open borders and to ‘take our guns’ (PolitiFact, 3/15/2018)

• At task force meeting, teachers suggest practical ways to improve school safety (WRVO Public Media, 3/12/2018)

• Voices: Jaclyn Schildkraut (Canyon Democrats, 3/12/2018)

• An unanswered question in the Florida gun debate: What to do with existing guns? (PolitiFact, 3/8/2018)

• Politifact: Nebulous link between assault weapons, shootings* (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3/2/2018)

• University police on how to respond to an active shooter event* (The Scarlet [Clark University], 3/2/2018)

• NRA’s Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban (Politifact, 2/27/2018)

• Give shooters less publicity, tell stories of prevented tragedies, experts say (KUT / Texas Standard, 2/26/2018)

• Did mass shootings increase 200 percent since assault weapons ban expired? (PolitiFact, 2/23/2018)

• 14 school shootings since 2010 in Florida? Not really (PolitiFact, 2018)

• NRA head Wayne LaPierre blames socialism for gun control push since Parkland (Vox, 2/22/2018)

• The media should stop making school shooters famous (Vox, 2/22/2018)

• In the echoes of Florida shooting, gun-control advocates raise their voices (The Globe and Mail [Canada], 2/15/2018)

• Florida native reacts to school shooting (CNYCentral.com, 2/15/2018)

• Florida high school shooting ‘close to home’ for SUNY Oswego professor (LocalSYR.com, 2/15/2018)

• What we know about mass shootings* (PolitiFact, 2/14/2018)

• Lockdown lowdown: Are school safety measures merely an illusion of safety? (WWMT.com, 1/31/2018)

• NNY church ‘not a gun-free zone’ (Watertown Daily Times, 1/21/2018)

• Las Vegas police say violent crime decreased in 2017 (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1/18/2018)

• Las Vegas sees deadliest year, breaks record for homicides (Las Vegas Review-Journal (1/17/2018)

• CNY woman collecting cards for Las Vegas shooting victims (CNYCentral.com, 12/12/2017)

• Holiday cards from CNY to Las Vegas: Children who lost parents in mass shooting (LocalSYR.com, 12/11/2017)

• ‘Avalanche of support’ helps SUNY Oswego faculty member collect cards for children of Las Vegas shooting victims (The Palladium-Times, 12/11/2017)

• UA professor studies mass shootings in America (The Crimson White, 12/5/2017)

• Questions, answers on American mass shootings* (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/22/2017)

• The facts of mass shootings in the United States* (PolitiFact, 11/8/2017)

• Country where mass shootings are now an everyday occurrence (Independent [Ireland], 11/7/2017)

• National Rifle Association control policy [Translated with Google Translate] (HK01.com [Hong Kong/Taiwan/China], 10/14/2017)

• Casino tragedy… [Translated with Google Translate] (HK01.com [Hong Kong/Taiwan/China], 10/13/2017)

• What is a ‘bump stock?’ And would a ban really make any difference?* (KTUU.com, 10/6/2017)

• The Las Vegas shooting has reinvigorated calls for gun control* (The Economist, 10/5/2017)

• One mass shooting every day: Seven facts about gun violence in America (The Telegraph [UK], 10/5/2017)

• The Las Vegas shooting, gun control and American violence* (The Spectrum, 10/5/2017)

• Mass shootings: How U.S. gun culture compares with the rest of the world (The Washington Post, 10/4/2017)

• Dear media, stop using mass murderers’ pictures and names (AL.com, 10/4/2017)

• Five things to know about mass shootings in the U.S. [updated from 2015] (The Wall Street Journal, 10/3/2017)

• SUNY Oswego professor discusses congressional baseball shooting aftermath (LocalSYR.com, 6/14/2017)

• CNY community remembers victims of Pulse Nightclub shooting (CNYCentral.com, 6/12/2017)

• 49 lives lost in Orlando nightclub massacre remembered in Syracuse (LocalSYR.com, 6/12/2017)

• Fact-checking Swedish response to Donald Trump campaign cry (PolitiFact, 2/22/2017)

• Chicago violence gets everyone’s attention, but it is not America’s murder capital* (Business Insider, 1/18/2017)

• Chicago still isn’t the murder capital of America* (The Trace, 1/18/2017)

• Congress blocked Obama’s call for new gun laws after mass shootings (PolitiFact, 1/6/2017)

• Congress doesn’t zero in on assault weapons ban bills (PolitiFact, 12/8/2016)

• Patrick Murphy wants to ban ‘commonly owned semi-automatic firearms,’ NRA says (PolitiFact, 10/11/2016)

• National crime rates rise, but only in three cities (Christian Science Monitor, 9/19/2016)

• When it comes to media coverage of shootings, location matters (Vice, 9/10/2016)

• What if we never named the shooters? (9 News [Denver], 8/5/2016)

• Is America becoming numb to mass shootings? (Vice, 7/29/2016)

• Mass shootings can be prevented – if someone who knows tells [Commentary] (Syracuse Post-Standard / Syracuse.com, 6/16/2016)

• Orlando shooter’s AR-15: Accurate, lightweight and there are millions (Bradenton Herald, 6/14/2016)

• Orlando shooter’s AR-15: Accurate, lightweight and there are millions* (The Miami Herald, 6/13/2016)

• The mass shootings America forgets about (Vice, 6/10/2016)

• Mass shootings killed more people in the US last week than in all of Europe in 2016 (Vice, 4/29/2016)

• There were ten mass shootings in America this week (Vice, 4/22/2016)

• Oswego professor co-authors book exploring myths, realities of mass shootings (Oswego County Today, 3/23/2016)

• Professor co-authors book exploring myths, realities of mass shootings (Oswego News, 3/23/2016)

• Experts discuss concealed carry laws, gun rights on college campuses (The Daily Orange, 2/28/2016)

• How gun control looks from an Arizona gun show* (Christian Science Monitor, 2/6/2016)

• Canada mass school shooting: How often does this happen?* (Christian Science Monitor, 1/23/2016)

• Obama’s gun control speech: Fact-checking the statistics* (The Guardian, 1/5/2016)

• Gun violence vigil seeks detente (Arizona Daily Sun, 12/11/2015)

• Fact Checker: Obama’s inconsistent claim on ‘frequency’ of mass shootings* (Syracuse Post-Standard / Syracuse.com, 12/4/2015)

• Obama’s inconsistent claim on the ‘frequency’ of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries (The Washington Post, 12/3/2015)

• The facts shoot holes in Obama’s claim that US is only host to mass killings* (Fox News, 12/3/2015)

• Obama’s inconsistent claim on the ‘frequency’ of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries* (Reading Eagle, 12/3/2015)

• Fact check: Obama claim that ‘I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings; this just doesn’t happen in other countries’* (The Washington Post, 12/1/2015)

• Heyl: Open borders invite foreigners to steal thunder of our mass murderers* (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 11/19/2015)

• George Boardman: Why gun control laws Congress has passed are largely useless* (The Union, 10/20/2015)

• Nation-wide school shootings spark Oswego State administration response (The Oswegonian, 10/16/2015)

• After Oregon, focus on preventing mass shootings [Commentary] (Syracuse Post-Standard / Syracuse.com, 10/8/2015)

• Wasserman Schultz claims 294 mass shootings in 2015 alone (PolitiFact, 10/8/2015)

• U.S. leads world in mass shootings (The Wall Street Journal, 10/3/2015)

• Are mass shootings really becoming routine? (WORLD Magazine, 10/3/2015)

• 5 things about mass shootings in the U.S. (The Wall Street Journal, 10/2/2015)

• Mother of Sandy Hook shooting victim speaks out on school safety (CNYCentral.com, 9/17/2015)

• Are their more gun deaths in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world?* (PolitiFact, 8/13/2015)

• A counsel of despair: The Charleston massacre will not produce new controls on firearms (The Economist, 6/27/2015)

• Barack Obama tweets that U.S. gun-homicide rate is much higher than in France, Israel, Japan (PolitiFact, 6/22/2015)

• Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don’t happen in other countries? (PolitiFact, 6/22/2015)

• Washington case revives debate about ‘contagious’ mass shootings (National Public Radio [NPR], 10/27/2014)

• How many gun bills pass after mass shootings? (Popular Science, 9/18/2013)

• Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check (PolitiFact, 1/24/2013)

• “There’s a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check … 40 percent of guns are sold that way” at gun shows and over the Internet (PolitiFact, 7/25/2012)

• “When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see … large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year.” (PolitiFact, 1/13/2011)

• “Saturday’s shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died.” (PolitiFact, 1/11/2011)