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The Los Alamos Police chief said in the event of an active shooter situation, guns are more readily accessible in a safe as opposed to an SRO’s squad car.

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Authorized employees in school districts across the Sooner State can be trained and designated as reserve officers, allowing them to carry guns on campus under the egis of a new law signed by Gov. Mary Fallin.

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The incident apparently happened while the security guard was sitting on a bench next to two students, and although no one was injured, the man has been terminated.

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The 16-year-old student fired two shots before he was subdued by the teacher. Authorities believe he was attempting “suicide by cop” and said he did not intend to hurt anyone.

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When a student at the State College Area High School in central Pennsylvania sent a joking text message to her mother about a gunman on campus, it did not receive the response she expected.

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The small-caliber gun, which was located in the student's backpack, accidentally fired when the bag was being passed from one student to another, apparently by being dropped from a second floor balcony to the first floor in the school's cafeteria.

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A stabbing spree by a 16-year old student armed with two kitchen knives at Franklin Regional High School in suburban Murrysville left 20 injured on Wednesday.

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As a school resource officer from a Portland high school is recovering at home from a non-life threatening gunshot wound, he is being hailed a hero for fatally shooting an armed fugitive wanted for kidnapping and several bank robberies.

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The school was put on lockdown after a student alerted the school resource officer that another student was attempting to sell firearms on campus. Authorities later discovered that the guns were stolen from a nearby home earlier that day.

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The mother of an elementary-aged girl is urging her daughter’s school to make changes after she claims an active-shooter drill Wednesday left the girl traumatized and afraid when the third-grader didn't realize the drill was not real.

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Three Colt 6920 M4 carbines will be purchased for three of the district's schools. They will be stored in biometric safes and only be accessible by the school resource officers' fingerprints.

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The sheriff called the presence of the deputy, who was working as a school resource officer at the time, "a critical element" in the teen's decision to take his own life.

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