School shootings are once again in the news. There were two last week. When the pundits in the media and online talk about school attacks, a false narrative often emerges that it is a uniquely domestic “American epidemic,” fostered by widespread firearms ownership and insufficient firearms regulation.
Police in Ecuador say they have arrested four people in connection with an attack by gunmen at a cockfighting ring in which 12 people died.
Weapons and replica police and army uniforms were seized during police raids in the north-western Manabí province on Friday – a day after the attack in the rural community of La Valencia.
Footage of the attack shared on social media showed gunmen entering the ring and opening fire, as terrified spectators dived for cover.
Tweet translation – “Cockfight massacre in #Ecuador : Armed men disguised as soldiers opened fire at a venue in Manabí, leaving at least 12 dead.
It happened Thursday night. The Ministry of the Interior reported that four alleged perpetrators were arrested, believed to be members of a gang known as “R7.”
Masacre en pelea de gallos en #Ecuador: Hombres armados, disfrazados de militares, abrieron fuego en un local de Manabí. Dejaron al menos 12 muertos.
Ocurrió el jueves por la noche. El Ministerio del Interior informó que se detuvo a cuatro presuntos implicados y que serían… pic.twitter.com/FCu5MqeIn6
— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) April 19, 2025
When reports began circulating that an active shooter was on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Anne-Mari Eriksen was one of countless distressed parents trying to make contact with their loved ones at the school.
At this stage, she was desperate to find out if her son was okay, but as details emerged through a press conference on Thursday afternoon, a new nightmare emerged – her son was responsible for the carnage unfolding.
Phoenix Ikner, 20, was identified later by cops as the shooter, with authorities revealing he was the son of sheriff’s deputy Jessica Ikner and had used her weapon to kill two people and injure another six.
Active shooter events have been tracked by the FBI for over two decades. There are interesting results when those statistics are compared to other data. A new study states that civilian responses to these events are less adverse than police responses. The April 2025 study found that “armed citizens do not interfere with police, and in active shooter situations, they reduce deaths and injuries significantly more effectively than the police.”
The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before being transported to the hospital, according to police. He is believed to be an FSU student. His mother was assigned by the sheriff’s office to protect a local public school.
#BREAKING: Police announce the shooter at Florida State University is the son of a Leon County Sheriff’s Deputy
He’s been identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, and used one of his mother’s weapons to commit the mass shooting at FSU.
HOLY CRAP. pic.twitter.com/mlkrQAQlvg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2025
h/t DickFitzwell
One person is in custody and at least six people are wounded, one critically on Thursday after someone reportedly opened fire near Florida State University’s student union.
Police swarmed the university’s Tallahassee campus with guns drawn around noon. Students hid in classrooms. Some fled the area with hands in the air, leaving behind backpacks, food and even shoes. Tallahassee
Police spokesperson Alicia Hill confirmed to the Miami Herald that one person is in custody. She said there are multiple victims but could not confirm an exact number.
Info is sketchy with contradictory details on casualties.
#BREAKING UPDATE: At least 5 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Florida State University (FSU), per WFTV
Reports stating TWO SHOOTERS, with one in custody and the other dead.
The scene is STILL listed as an “active shooter situation.” It is unknown if there are other shooters. pic.twitter.com/QDjKZyG8IC
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2025
Eyewitness account from Florida State University student Max Jenkins pic.twitter.com/fKgFMBdkKD
— Alicia Devine (@alicia_c_devine) April 17, 2025
Twitter – Florida State
Update via CNN
• FSU shooting: At least six people were wounded in a mass shooting today at Florida State University in Tallahassee, according to a local hospital. One patient is in critical condition while the other five were described as serious.
• Suspect in custody: Police have taken at least one person into custody. Officers found a handgun on the suspect, as well as a shotgun in the school’s student union and another gun in the suspect’s car, according to a law enforcement official.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is apparently, an institution held hostage. Yesterday, the New York Post revealed that law enforcement had recently released new information about Audrey Hale’s mindset before she went on a shooting rampage against elementary-aged school children, coming from her own writings…
The transgender shooter in a mass killing in 2023 at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, was a school alumnus motivated by a quest for notoriety, a final police report concludes. Three children and three adults died in the attack before police shot the killer.
Nashville Police said that Audrey Hale, 28, left behind notebooks, art books, and documents about her plot to attack the Covenant School. Hale, a female, was in part inspired by the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, the report said.
You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.
On what was supposed to be a celebratory night, the grand opening of a new pub at Scarborough Town Centre on Friday was met with gunfire, sending 12 people to the hospital.
Toronto police said three masked male suspects, one armed with an assault rifle and the other two with handguns, entered Piper Arms at 520 Progress Avenue just before 10:40 p.m.
“They walked into the bar. They produced their guns, and they opened fire indiscriminately on the people sitting inside the bar,” Supt. Paul MacIntyre of Organized Crime Enforcement told reporters at the scene.
– Three men, armed with assault rifle and hand guns, open fire in Scarborough, Toronto pub. 'By grace of God, there’s been no fatalities,' says Superintendent Paul Macintyre, despite 'blood all over the floor, everywhere' pic.twitter.com/8mcLnm15Ln
— Iyane (@XTechPulse) March 8, 2025
Toronto police are investigating a mass shooting in Scarborough that left at least 12 people injured Friday evening.
Officers say the shooting happened at the Piper Arms Pub near Scarborough Town Centre at approximately 10:30 p.m.

They do not have a description other than… pic.twitter.com/61jXj5GisO— GeoTechWar (@geotechwar) March 8, 2025
Toronto is such a 3rd World Craphole I’m not even going to suggest this is anything but gang related.
h/t Mauser & Patthedog
The mass shooter who murdered seven people at a July 4 parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park pleaded guilty to the killings on Monday.
Robert Crimo, 23, withdrew his earlier not-guilty plea in a Lake County circuit courtroom; he admitted to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb.
It was a stunning development moments before opening arguments in his trial on charges of murder and attempted murder.
School pupils have long been drilled in what to do in the event of a fire. Lining up in the playground while heads are counted is a routine part of school life.
Now, another type of drill appears to be increasingly common in British classrooms: the US-style lockdown, where children are prepared for the grim possibility of a violent attack on site.
More than a quarter (26 per cent) of primary school teachers have carried out such a drill since September, and 36 per cent of secondary school teachers, according to a recent survey by Teacher Tapp. Some primaries are reportedly also spending thousands of pounds on security systems to alert staff to intruders
Syrians and a Bosnian were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro on Tuesday.
It was the first information about those murdered in the attack, and it came from two embassies rather than police, who only said there were victims of a number of nationalities.
Police said the suspected gunman, named locally as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, was found dead after the attack, with three guns by his side.
No official motive declared but they dance around the prospect that it may be related to the shooter’s anger at Sweden’s disastrous mass immigration policy.
A man suspected of carrying out the ‘worst mass shooting’ in Sweden’s history has been pictured for the first time.
Swedish outlet Expressen shared an image of Rickard Andersson, 35, who it reported is suspected of shooting ten people dead in a shocking attack at Risbergska School in Örebro’s Västhaga district on Tuesday.
The man is said to have turned the gun on himself following the rampage, according to police.
h/t Canminuteman
A nightclub shooting in Queens has left at least 10 people injured, according to police.
On Wednesday night, gunshots rang near the Amazura event hall on 144th Street and Archer Avenue in Jamaica at around 11:20 pm, according to AMNY.
At least three people who were shot walked into a local hospital to seek medical attention.
