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    State Rep. Karla Rose Hanson, D-Fargo, promotes her "red flag" bill while police chiefs and Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson, listen at the state Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. John Hageman / Forum News Service
    McFeely: Red flag law is more accurately 'public safety,' not 'gun grabbing'
    Let's try this again. A do-over, if you will, because Rep. Karla Rose Hanson's very reasonable bipartisan public-safety bill unveiled last week...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 23, 2019 - 8:52pm
    August 27, 2018
    Educators, legislators, law enforcement and parents share all at ND school safety forum
    FARGO — In sharing their concerns at a school safety forum, both parents and educators in Fargo-Moorhead said that while an active shooter is their greatest fear, it's the daily violence in classrooms and lack of mental health resources that needs to be addressed. At Fargo South...
    news/educationAugust 27, 2018 - 10:10pm
    May 30, 2018
    Chairman Diane Black (R-Tenn.) during a House Budget Committee hearing in Washington, March 16, 2017. (Gabriella Demczuk/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Pornography is a 'root cause' of school shootings, Republican congresswoman says
    A Republican congresswoman from Tennessee blamed pornography - as well as a host of other cultural issues - for school shootings, during a recent...
    news/government-and-politicsMay 30, 2018 - 7:35am
    March 24, 2018
    Local protestrs against gun violence walk along Broadway during the March for Our Lives rally in downtown Fargo on Saturday, March 24, 2018.David Samson / The Forum
    'We have a problem': Hundreds rally in Fargo calling for reforms to curb gun violence
    FARGO — Sarah Light said she's tired of hearing more guns would reduce gun violence. Instead, the Fargo North High School student said...
    newsMarch 24, 2018 - 8:04pm
    Terry Woster
    Commentary: How do we make a safe school setting?
    I heard the other day about an active-shooter drill at a school in the Twin Cities, and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind.
    opinion/columnsMarch 24, 2018 - 6:55am
    March 21, 2018
    Steve Zipper visits a makeshift memorial in Parkland, Fla., for the 17 victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Matt McClain
    What happens to children who survive school shootings in America?
    Thirteen at Columbine. Twenty-six at Sandy Hook. Seventeen at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Over the past two decades, a handful of massacres that...
    news/educationMarch 21, 2018 - 1:17pm
    March 1, 2018
    North Dakota State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler. Submitted photo
    ND troopers could offer sense of security at schools under state proposal
    FARGO — North Dakota Highway Patrol troopers could soon have space at public schools in the state that lack a law enforcement presence...
    newsMarch 1, 2018 - 6:50pm
    February 28, 2018
    columnist Rob Port
    Commentary: What if school shootings aren't actually an epidemic?
    Seen through the prism of myopic and sensationalist media media coverage, not to mention the self-aggrandizing and almost ubiquitous lecturing...
    opinion/columnsFebruary 28, 2018 - 7:19am
    February 23, 2018
    Twins do their part to honor Stoneman Douglas shooting victims
    FORT MYERS, Fla. — Pulling on the black-and-garnet cap of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as he headed out to warm up Friday afternoon made an impression on Twins pitcher Aaron Slegers. "That was extremely special," Slegers said after starting and working two scoreless...
    sportsFebruary 23, 2018 - 7:56pm
    February 22, 2018
    President Donald Trump during a meeting with state and local officials on school safety inside the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Feb. 22, 2018. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
    Trump appears to back raising assault rifle age to 21, presses case for arming some teachers
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his idea of arming some teachers as a deterrent for school shootings and praised...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 22, 2018 - 3:30pm
    February 21, 2018
    President Donald Trump participates in a discussion that included survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, at the White House in Washington, Feb. 21, 2018. “We’re going to do something about this horrible situation,” Trump said at the event's outset, adding that his administration would be “very strong on background checks.” (Tom Brenner/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Trump's solution for school shootings: arm teachers
    WASHINGTON - Seated between teenage survivors of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office listening session...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 21, 2018 - 9:48pm
    December 17, 2016
    Parents and students are reunited after a shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon June 10, 2014. A gunman walked into the school and fatally shot a student on Tuesday before authorities found him dead a short time later, a day before students were due to finish classes and break for summer vacation. REUTERS/Steve Dipaola (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW)
    Gun laws, mental health spending tied to fewer school shootings
    As school shootings become more common in the U.S., they're happening less often in states with mandatory background checks on gun and ammunition...
    newsDecember 17, 2016 - 4:04pm
    May 31, 2014
    State to report mental health records for gun sales checks
    FARGO — North Dakota has been shooting blanks when it comes to submitting mental health records to the background check system used to screen gun permit applications. North Dakota was one of a dozen states singled out in a new report as having reported fewer than 100 mental health...
    newsMay 31, 2014 - 8:43pm
    May 17, 2013
    Rep. Kevin Cramer's speech linking abortion, school shootings draws national attention
    BISMARCK -- A commencement speech by U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer this month linking legalized abortion with school shootings has attracted the attention of an Internet media outlet. "Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand," he said in his speech...
    newsMay 17, 2013 - 12:00am
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