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BONUS: LOCKDOWN vs RUN, HIDE, FIGHT  The Great Debate Part 3 Question and Answer time.. In today’s bonus episode we are sharing part 3 Katherine participated in hosted by Joffe Emergency Services.  Two experts in - what will they conclude? Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/st...

BONUS: LOCKDOWN vs RUN, HIDE, FIGHT  The Great Debate Part 2 In today’s bonus episode we are sharing part 2 Katherine participated in hosted by Joffe Emergency Services.  Two experts in - what will they conclude? Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling  And for all t...

BONUS: LOCKDOWN vs RUN, HIDE, FIGHT  The Great Debate Part 1 In today’s bonus episode we are sharing part 1 Katherine participated in hosted by Joffe Emergency Services.  Two experts in - what will they conclude? Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling  And for all t...

COVENANT SCHOOL SHOOTING  NASHVILLE TENNESSEE  27 March 2023 Another tragic, needless school shooting happened, just last week as we go to record this. We are joined by Nashville’s own 911 Dispatcher, Brandon Hall who was working as the shooting unfolded.  Hear how the shooting unfolded… Check out Brandon’s podcast Music City 911 Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us...

Just because the police can’t solve a murder doesn’t mean other people won’t find someone to blame. In season 4 of Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch, journalist Larrison Campbell returns to her Mississippi hometown to reexamine one of its most notorious unsolved cold cases – the murder of her grandmother, Presh. What happens when a family and a community suspect one of their own? Subscribe to The Bing...

EASY TO PULL A TRIGGER SEASON 3 BONUS 22 This was indeed a bonus episode that started with a casual chat and then slid into another listener-question episode.  This is the question that sparked our discussion this episode  ‘Please ask Sarah if she has data on how many of the active shooters used their own legally registered guns to do what they did. Also, ask her for the list and cost of the guns...

NO REST FOR THE WICKED? Or no rest BECAUSE of the wicked! This bonus episode we check in with Katherine to see how her year has unfolded and turns out mass shootings have not taken any time at all to ease into the new year! Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling  An...

MAKE THE TOUGH CALLS! Listener Question from Mary Louise We love a listener question and this one is so relatable!  ‘I know it's best to raise a noise when you see something concerning, but at a personal level, the aftermath of doing so would probably give me a bit of pause….” Would you be brave enough to put your head above the parapet and take action if you saw your teens social media feed and c...

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY  13th February 2023  As we go to record this episode, it is 3 days since the tragic shooting at Michigan State University, which left 3 dead, and 5 fighting for their lives in hospital. Another tragic event that just happens to be even closer to home than usual for Katherine, as a former student of MSU.  We await many more details as the case unfolds and will return in a...

THE GUN BOOKCLUB  In this bonus episode, as we promised last week, Katherine is sharing some of her favorite books on the topic of guns and gun culture in America. Plus, Sarah has a little spelling epifany ……(bear with us…wink wink!)  BOOKS MENTIONED THIS EPISODE: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)  Guide to Firearms laws in the 50 States...

SUICIDE BY FIREARMS  ***Season 4 in production*** In this bonus episode Katherine and Sarah dig into the stats because we know there's a connection between suicide and firearms but the numbers well……they will blow your socks off!  And we finish off with some practical tips that can actually turn the tide on the shocking number of suicides by firearms.  If you have a teenage son in particular, you...

MYTHS AND LEGENDS BONUS 16  Katherine and Sarah are currently in production of Season 4 but we will be bringing you bonus episodes each week in between seasons. So this week Katherine shares an article she came across in the Psychiatric Times busting 10 of the myths surrounding mass shootings.  Can you guess what they might be……spoiler alert Sarah can’t!  Send us your Listener Questions for our Tu...

TO LICENSE OR NOT TO LICENSE?…..That is the question!  Bonus 15 In this week's bonus episode as we work on Season 4, Katherine and Sarah discuss a million dollar question ……to license or not to license.  In New York, there was a member of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC and he put forth this idea to submit a bill to Congress to say, I want a bill that's gonna require licensing for a...

BONUS 14 HOW FAR HAVE WE COME? With Ken Bator  As Katherine and Sarah work on Season 4 we will be dropping bonus episodes and this week we wanted to share an interview Sarah did with Ken Bator from Public Safety Talk Radio reflecting on how much she has learnt from working with Katherine over the last 3 seasons of the podcast. If you have listened from episode 1, we wonder if you can relate to jus...

​​MASS ATTACKS DEFENSE TOOLKIT  BONUS 13 As our Season 4 is in production we will be moving the Tuesday Bonus Episodes to Thursday in the meantime.  And in this episode we continue sharing some of the incredible research and resources that Katherine discovered at the 2022 National Research Conference on Firearm Injury Prevention. In particular she speaks with John Hollywood discussing the Mass Att...

WINNETKA SCHOOL SHOOTING, ILLINOIS 20th May 1988 The Hubbard Woods School Shooting This is the last episode of season 3 but never fear we will be dropping bonus episodes while we squirrel away on season 4. Head over to our socials to be the first to know when season 4 will be dropping and for more bonus content head to Patreon.com/stopthekilling  On this episode we are joined by retired FBI agent...

A TIDDLER OF A BONUS!  S3 BONUS 12  Today’s bonus episode is another installment of the interviews Katherine recorded at the Firearm Injury Research Conference at the end of 2022.  Katherine talked to Justin Hatchimonji and Danielle R. Hatchimonji about their research below: Trends in Youth Risk Behaviors and Firearm Injury in the US Over 20 Years:   For the first time in the US, firearm injuries...

S3E11 VTA SAN JOSE SHOOTING  The San Jose, VTA shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on May 26, 2021, at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.  The shooter has been identified as a 57-year-old man who was an employee of the VTA. He opened fire at the VTA facilities around 6:30 am, killing 8 people and injuring several oth...

ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY?  Is it really safer? This bonus episode is one recorded by Katherine on the fly at the FIREARMS INJURY RESEARCH CONFERENCE.  Katherine talks to Trauma Surgeon Dr Ashley Hink from the Medical University of South Carolina discussing her research, Analysis of rural and urban patients treated for firearms injuries in 131 US Trauma Centers. It is jam packed with fascinating infor...

S3E10 FBI - BEHIND THE (CRIME) SCENES The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a law enforcement agency like no other. It has a wide range of responsibilities, from investigating terrorist activity to fighting public corruption to providing law enforcement training. And while the FBI is often in the news for its high-profile cases, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. And communicatin...

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS 2023  A call to arms….of a different sort In the last bonus episode, we reflected on 2022 and what led us closer to ending the mass shooting crisis and what took us in the opposite direction.  This episode, as we totter into a shiny New Year, what can we look towards as hopeful signs that we are making any headway on this vexing mass shooting plague…..and what do we hope we ha...

S3E9  The Dunblane Massacre Dunblane is a dark episode in British history which began with a school shooting, and ended with the death of 16 children and their teacher. In the early hours of the 13th March, 1996, the killer armed himself with 4 legally held handguns and embarked on a dark mission that would claim the lives 17 in the gymnasium and library of Dunblane Primary School. The Dunblane Ma...

2022 PASS OR FAIL? As we slide towards a shiny new year, Katherine and Sarah reflect on how 2022 would fear if it was graded on its impact on moving us closer to ending the mass shooting crisis…..A+ or a -E! As we say in New Zealand, it was a game of two halves!  Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SU...

"911.... WHAT’S YOUR EMERGENCY?" with Brandon Hall of Music City 911 Podcast We are all potential if not probable 911 (or your countries equivalent) callers in our lifetimes.  So how would you cope on what is most often one of the most panicked and pressure filled moments of your life. Well we went straight to the source and asked 911 Dispatcher and host of the Music City 911 Podcast, Brandon Hall...

THE HESITATION CIRCLE With the current state of the world, it's more important than ever to be vigilant and report any suspicious behavior. But who needs to report what, and to whom? In this episode, thanks to a brilliant question from our listener, Greg, we will explore who needs to report suspicious behavior, and what type of behavior is considered suspicious and essentially who to report said i...