Recently, the NRA blamed violent video games and other media for school shootings.
We fear school shootings, even though a school is almost always the safest place a child can be.
After the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, Colorado lawmakers successfully introduced background checks for buyers at firearms shows.
Since the law took effect, there have been no school shootings in the state, nor accidents or incidents involving educators' firearms.
Half of those questioned said the school shootings have not changed their opinions on gun control, down 19 points from January 2011.
But it says the horrific nature of several school shootings last year - and heavy media coverage - has left the opposite impression.
BBC: News | Education | Level of US school shootings 'exaggerated'
Malloy's administration says it backs the state police commander who discussed the Newtown school shootings at a law enforcement seminar and won't punish him.
The Savage Sports deal may also end up performing poorly, the person added, after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings in December hit gun makers' shares.
Media coverage of school shootings in the United States could lead to "counterproductive" new laws and an excessive focus on danger at school, according to a study.
BBC: News | Education | Level of US school shootings 'exaggerated'
But the problems with guns and injuries go so far beyond school shootings, and a lot of that is amenable to a more focused health care system.
Sir Elton returned later to perform in another all-star collaboration, paying tribute as he did so to the 26 people killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings last December.
On Wednesday, President Bill Clinton asked Reno to probe the Arkansas shootings, in which four school children and a teacher died, and two other school shootings in Paducah, Ky.
The observances are to come a day after President Barack Obama's administration put into motion an effort to change U.S. gun laws, less than a week after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings.
Setting aside how ludicrous I find the idea of arming teachers or placing armed guards in every school in America, the notion that censoring violent media will somehow prevent school shootings is preposterous.
Clinton used the occasion to announce an Oct. 15 White House summit on school violence, in answer to the recent spate of school shootings and other crime problems in and around the nation's schools.
Forty-three percent said the elementary school shootings in Connecticut make them more likely to support gun control laws, a 15-point increase from January 2011 following the Arizona gun rampage that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
CNN: Gun owners fear new legislation could tread on their rights
But background checks would not have stopped most school shootings, in which the gunmen took legally obtained weapons from parents with spotless backgrounds, says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston.
Biden traveled to a gun policy conference in Connecticut last month in the aftermath of December's Newtown school shootings, to underscore the administration's push for tougher laws as the state considers a broad set of gun control bills.
Before their season opener against the Boston Red Sox on Monday, the New York Yankees held a tribute to the victims of the Newtown school shootings and honored first responders who rushed to the Connecticut school on Dec. 14.
Washington (CNN) -- The time to act on gun violence has come, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- wounded in a 2011 shooting -- told lawmakers Wednesday, opening the first congressional hearing on the issue since the Connecticut school shootings in December.
Holmes, a former graduate student at the University of Colorado, Denver, had seen a psychiatrist at the school before the shootings.
The official said the suspected shooter is a Lake Academy student, not a student at Chardon High School, where the shootings occurred, according to the Associated Press.
The debate on gun violence in the US was rekindled earlier this month by the shootings at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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But an e-mail sent in July on the day of the shootings within the school's information technology department acknowledged that Holmes still had an active computer account at the time, and two badges for the campus.
After the shootings at the Jewish school in Toulouse, the Socialist candidate suspended his campaign for the day.
Ever since the shootings at Columbine High School, in a Denver suburb, in 1999, American schools have been preparing for gunmen.
The US premiere of Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained has been called off in the wake of last week's shootings in a Connecticut school.
Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding vote in the vote on the bill, which was debated after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado.
Frost, 62, served two terms as chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and in the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School he co-chaired the Bipartisan Working Group on Youth Violence.
Olbrich and his colleagues ran several support groups after the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, still the deadliest event at an American high school, in which 12 students and a teacher died.
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