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Virginia Tech Fined $55K for Response to Shootings
By not in system - AOL NewsRICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. Department officials said in a letter to the school that the sanction should have been greater for the school's slow response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The $55,000 fine was the most the department could levy for Tech's two violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely reporting of crimes on campus. "While Virginia Tech's ...
Opinion: Here's an Easy Way to Improve Gun Safety
By not in system - AOL NewsSince the Tucson, Ariz., tragedy, many people have renewed calls for more gun control measures. But there's already a perfectly good law on the books that could improve gun safety in this country right now. Congress, with the president's support, just needs to fully fund it. Some background: The FBI's National Instant Check System, or NICS, was created under the 1993 Brady Act to provide information to gun dealers on whether a buyer is prohibited from possessing a firearm. The system has processed more than 121 million checks since it began in 1998 and has denied close to 2 million ...
Giffords Shooting Raises Questions About Guns and Mental Illness
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- It takes a lot to be considered too crazy to own a gun in Arizona. As authorities investigate the mass shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, it appears clear that a growing list of troubling warning signs would not have prohibited suspect Jared Loughner from buying the Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol he is accused of using in the attack. Gun-control advocates say the 22-year-old Loughner was technically within his rights to buy the weapon. And that's why they say stricter background checks and a new strategy for keeping guns out of ...
Arizona Shootings and the Gun Debate: How Will the Public Respond?
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTragic and shocking events like the shooting rampage in Arizona inevitably revive the debate over gun control laws and no doubt will do so again after Jared Lee Loughner allegedly used a legally purchased semi-automatic weapon to put a bullet in the brain of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and kill or injure 19 others. But over the last decade, major shooting incidents across the country have not led to a surge in public support for tougher gun control laws. There has been a series of incidents claiming multiple victims in shooting sprees over the past few years, including the rampage at a civic ...
Gun Control Debate: Why Do We Make Gun Violence So Easy?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe only thing worse than slowly watching a shooting unfold on television is being a part of one. Nearly four years after surviving the worst school shooting in America -- the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007 -- and trying to live a "normal" life, I sat there Saturday, stunned, angry and saddened as the nauseating details of another mass murder unfolded before my eyes. Opposing View Political Opportunists Swarm In After Giffords Tragedy I sat there as the uncontrollable feelings that come from the shock and trauma of a normal day morphing into madness ...
Virginia Tech Survivor Is 'Living for 32' in War to Tighten Gun Laws
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Surviving the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history wasn't enough to make Colin Goddard an advocate for stricter gun laws. Only when he watched another rampage play out on TV two years later did the Virginia Tech graduate realize he had to speak out. "That took me back to the day like none other," Goddard said of another troubled gunman who killed 14 at an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. "I was watching the body count rise and I was like, this is just the same stuff that is happening to another family now. ... I was like, I've got to get involved. I've got to do ...
Feds: Virginia Tech Broke Law in '07 Shootings Response
By not in system - AOL NewsRICHMOND, Va. (Dec. 9) -- U.S. education officials are standing by their finding that Virginia Tech broke federal law when it waited two hours to notify the campus that a gunman was on the loose at the outset of a 2007 shooting rampage, and then sent out an emailed warning that came too late for 30 students and faculty who'd gone to class only to be killed. In a report issued Thursday, the Department of Education rejected Virginia Tech's argument that its response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history met standards in place at the time for providing notification. Federal ...
Pentagon Wants Secret of Flying Snakes
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(Nov. 24) -- Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... a snake? Yes, and the Defense Department wants to know how this specific genus of tree-dwelling snakes, called Chrysopelea, are able to launch themselves into the air and glide long distances without the aid of wings. To this end, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has funded the research of Virginia Tech biologist John Socha, who has studied and filmed the snakes in Asia, The Washington Post reports. Dr. Chris Sidor Twin-barred tree snake (Chrysopelea pelias) taking to the air. This species does ...
Influential Climate Change Skeptic Accused of Plagiarism
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- In 2005, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, who at the time headed the House energy committee, turned to George Mason University statistician Edward Wegman to refute the work of Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann. Wegman's report criticized two earlier Mann reports that calculated global temperatures of the past thousand years and presented the 20th century as the warmest one in hundreds of years, a finding that was backed by subsequent scientific papers. But Wegman's report has now been undercut by the revelation that much of it was plagiarized from other sources like ...
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