After tragedy: A year after deadly Nashville shooting, Christian school relies on faith – and adopted dogs
TRAVIS LOLLER, of Associated Press, reports on the tight bonds that have developed after the shared suffering of a Christian school in Tennessee…
Postcards: In Nashville, Palm Sunday is a balm after school shooting – pastors
HOLLY MEYER, of Associated Press, reports from Tennessee in the wake of last week’s school shooting…
Push for reform: Tennessee’s God and guns culture under fire as protests mount in Capitol
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that hundreds of protesters rallied at the Tennessee Capitol this week amid calls for red flag laws and other reforms in the wake of the state’s deadliest school shooting…
Essay: Nashville attack renews calls for assault weapons ban – data shows there were fewer mass shooting deaths during an earlier 10-year prohibition
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHAEL J KLEIN, clinical assistant professor of surgery at New York University, looks at what the data shows about the effectiveness of bans on assault weapons…
Sight-Seeing: Weeping in Nashville
SCOTT SAULS, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, contemplates – in an article published by Religion News Service – the ‘why?’ of this week’s shooting…
Head of Nashville school in shooting would “run to” danger
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP The head of the Christian elementary school in Nashville who was killed in a shooting there on Monday was described by friends as smart, loving and a rare female leader within a male-led religious culture. “If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it,” Jackie Bailey said […]
Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale […]
Updated: Ex-student shoots dead three children, three adults at Tennessee Christian school
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT)Nashville, Tennessee Reuters A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, […]