"These days, we know an awful lot about why these events occur. We're beginning to understand the motivations behind events that, to many people, seem senseless. But that doesn't mean we can prevent them."
In the Los Angeles Times, Northeastern University's James Alan Fox presents why mass shootings have increased since Charles Whitman in 1966.
And in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Whitman's biographer, Gary Lavergne, traces the killer's legacy.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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