Looking for great examples of mass shooting reporting? Look no further. Check out these links:
ABC: VIDEO: Silence Broken, a mother’s reckoning
An interview with Susan Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold.
CNN: VIDEO: Active shooter training becomes the new normal
Think a normal gun owner has what it takes to stop an active shooter? CNN investigates.
GQ: Should We Get Used to Mass Shootings?
A touching exploration of 14 mass shootings in 10 days.
Mother Jones: How the Media Inspires Mass Shooters
Do “copycat” crimes exist?
New York Times: How they got their guns
New York Times: ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ is not how our brains work
USA Today: Behind the Bloodshed
Washington Post: The Hidden Life of Guns
Three data investigations on how criminals obtain their weapons.
Washington Post: Are mass shootings contagious? Some scientists who study how viruses spread say yes.
An explanation of “contagion” theory.
Washington Post: ‘Damaged masculinity’ may help explain Columbine and other mass shootings
Why are so many shooters white young men?
Washington Post: A survivor’s life
Recovery after a mass shooting in Roseburg, Ore.
Washington Post: An American Void
The family that housed Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
5280 Magazine: Colorado Springs’ Identity Crisis
How America’s “gun Mecca” wrestles with a spate of shootings.