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• Guys and guns amok; domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombings to the Virginia Tech massacre

  - 2008-08-01

  Guys and guns amok; domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombings to the Virginia Tech massacre. Kellner, Douglas. Paradigm Publishers 2008 221 pages $85.00 Hardcover The radical imagination series HN90 In the US, about 12,000 people die in...

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• CSM students mark Virginia Tech anniversary

  - 2008-04-17

  SAN MATEO -- Students and teachers -- many dressed in black -- converged on the main quad at College of San Mateo Wednesday and lay prone on the ground in silence for several minutes. Their somber rally commemorated the 32 people killed a year ago at Virginia...

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• States work to close gun-law gap

  - 2008-02-19

  In the days after Seung Hui Cho shot and killed 32 classmates and staff at Virginia Tech, Alberta Darling, a state senator in Wisconsin, wondered whether her own state's laws would have averted such a tragedy. Records of Cho's involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment never made...

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• States bolster FBI gun database

  - 2008-02-19

  More states are turning over records to a federal database of mentally ill people barred from owning guns, nearly tripling the number in the system since the massacre at Virginia Tech last spring, the FBI says. The tragedy spurred states to revisit their policies regarding the...

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• Pinning down the shifting boundaries of immunity: public colleges and universities are not immune to the legal onslaught that sometimes follows when tragedy strikes. Evolving state statutes could place more legal responsibility on schools

  - 2007-09-01

  When a tragedy like the shootings at Virginia Tech happens, families of students killed or injured look for someone to blame. After all, students are supposed to be safe at school. So when unexpected misfortunes happen, schools are sued for a whole host of reasons, from the most serious, such...

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• Element H2O Named as Official Water Sponsor for Centreville Day 2007

  - 2007-08-28

  Sponsorship Also Includes Support for the Peterson Samaha Character Development Scholarship Fund CHANTILLY, Va. -- Element H2O, a leading provider of ultra pure oxygenated bottled water to government, business, consumer and private label clients, today announced it has been named Official Water Sponsor of Centreville Day 2007 (Va.) ...

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• Security On Campus, Inc. Seeks Federal Review of Va. Tech Shootings

  - 2007-08-20

  To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: S. Daniel Carter of Security On Campus, Inc., +1-610-768- 9330 BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The federal government is today being asked to investigate Virginia Tech's response to the April 16th shootings on campus in which 32 students and faculty were brutally murdered. Security On Campus,...

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• Werewolves and silver bullets.(Editorial)

  - 2007-08-01

  If you poll the population, you probably won't find anyone who believes in werewolves. Yet people believe in silver bullets--or want to. Whether it's how to prevent the next senseless mass murder like the recent Virginia Tech tragedy--the subject of this month's cover story--or fighting terrorism...

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• US House approves stricter gun ownership legislation

  - 2007-06-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US House of Representatives approved new legislation Wednesday tightening gun ownership, as the government issued a report on the massacre at Virginia Tech University that omits any talk of tougher gun control laws. House members approved by a voice-vote a bill granting financial incentives to...

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• House passes bill to strengthen national background check system for

  - 2007-06-13

  WASHINGTON -- The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade, spurred by the Virginia Tech campus killings and buttressed by National Rifle Association help. The bill, which was passed on a voice vote, would improve state reporting to...

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