Munich gunman had book about Columbine and Virginia Tech killers
American academic’s 2009 work Why Kids Kill ‘provides an interior view of the mind of rampage school shooters’
July 2015
Waco, Columbine, Aurora and Newtown: 20 years of mass shootings that changed (and didn't change) America
Mass shootings remain an almost exclusively American phenomenon among advanced countries. These nine rocked the country and galvanized many in favor of gun control – so why has so little action followed?
April 2013
Kenneth Feinberg prepares to put a price on trauma of Boston bombings
Lawyer known as the 'master of disaster', who dealt with compensation issues after 9/11, Virginia Tech and Aurora, talks to Ed Pilkington
January 2013
Lone Star shooting highlights growing problem of guns on campus
Alex Hannaford
Alex Hannaford: This incident of gun violence at a Texas college reveals that the NRA is getting its way – with more concealed carry in schools
December 2012
Even after Newtown, Americans will resist Obama's call to tighten gun laws
Lucinda Roy
Lucinda Roy: Given the US's rooted gun culture, 'meaningful action' on gun control is a daunting task. We must have the president's back
July 2012
Film blog
Will the Dark Knight Rises shootings revive the debate on 'copycat' crimes?
Peter Bradshaw: If the gunman's mask was inspired by Bane, we will likely hear some depressingly familiar arguments about films inspiring violence – but pinning blame is a hazardous exercise
April 2012
Virginia Tech survivors bemoan inadequate safeguards, five years on
Relatives of 32 who died and those who survived say federal database of mentally ill people still woefully incomplete
December 2011
Virginia Tech gunman named as Ross Truett Ashley
Virginia Tech shooting - in pictures
Virginia Tech shooting brings back memories of 4/16
Virginia Tech: two people dead in campus shooting
August 2011
Virginia Tech lifts lockdown after investigating reports of man with handgun
University urged students and employees to stay inside and secure doors after sighting near scene of 2007 massacre
March 2011
Virginia Tech fined $55,000 for 2007 shootings
US department of education says school violated federal law in waiting too long to warn students about campus gunman
April 2008
Virginia Tech grieves on first anniversary of shootings
