Stop the Killing

LISTENER QUESTION 1 - JUSTIFIED FEAR? NOTE Katherine and Sarah are working on Season 3 at the moment but don’t want to leave you with an STK shaped hole in your podcast downloads so over the break we will be posting listener questions.  Get involved, leave a question @stopthekillingstories Our first in a series of listener question episodes comes from Carolyn, who is one of our fabulous Patreon su...

LISTENER QUESTION 1 - JUSTIFIED FEAR? NOTE Katherine and Sarah are working on Season 3 at the moment but don’t want to leave you with an STK shaped hole in your podcast downloads so over the break we will be posting listener questions.  Get involved, leave a question @stopthekillingstories Our first in a series of listener question episodes comes from Carolyn, who is one of our fabulous Patreon su...

CHRISTCHURCH - HATRED WITHOUT BORDERS We are going back to Sarah’s home country for a local case that rocked the world, the Christchurch Mosque massacres, note that is plural……massacres. If Christchurch, New Zealand isn’t your backyard then it may seem a world away but the Christchurch shooting is to white supremacists what Columbine is to school shooters  This is hatred without borders. It may no...

CHRISTCHURCH - HATRED WITHOUT BORDERS We are going back to Sarah’s home country for a local case that rocked the world, the Christchurch Mosque massacres, note that is plural……massacres. If Christchurch, New Zealand isn’t your backyard then it may seem a world away but the Christchurch shooting is to white supremacists what Columbine is to school shooters  This is hatred without borders. It may no...

BONUS 11 MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING PARKLAND, FLORIDA February 14th, 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida joined the club that no school wants to be a member of - a school name now synonymous with a horrific school shooting where the killer killed 17, 14 of them were students and injured 17. We will be revisiting this case in depth later in the season...

BONUS 11 MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING PARKLAND, FLORIDA February 14th, 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida joined the club that no school wants to be a member of - a school name now synonymous with a horrific school shooting where the killer killed 17, 14 of them were students and injured 17. We will be revisiting this case in depth later in the season...

EP 11 TERRORISM IN THE UK  Conversation with Mark Scoular Katherine and Sarah draw back the curtains on what it means to protect the UK from Terrorism with Mark Scoular…. Mark has dedicated himself to protecting the UK, its citizens and visitors to the UK as well as preparing our multi-agency emergency responders & special forces to keep our country secure against all manner of terrorist/non-t...

EP 11 TERRORISM IN THE UK  Conversation with Mark Scoular Katherine and Sarah draw back the curtains on what it means to protect the UK from Terrorism with Mark Scoular…. Mark has dedicated himself to protecting the UK, its citizens and visitors to the UK as well as preparing our multi-agency emergency responders & special forces to keep our country secure against all manner of terrorist/non-terro...

TAFT HIGH SCHOOL - BULLYING  Let’s talk about bullying - recent crime statistics in the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey done by the American National Center for Education and the U.S. Bureau of Justice, indicated 22% of students said they had experienced bullying. And then layer on this statistic, although there's 22%, who said they experienced bullying, they believe only 20% of bullying...

TAFT HIGH SCHOOL - BULLYING  Let’s talk about bullying - recent crime statistics in the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey done by the American National Center for Education and the U.S. Bureau of Justice, indicated 22% of students said they had experienced bullying. And then layer on this statistic, although there's 22%, who said they experienced bullying, they believe only 20% of bullying...

BONUS 10 PRAY IT AWAY? In the midst of all these school shootings in the United States, probably very few people heard about this shooting that happened at a Church in California, where a person was killed and five were injured when a subject came in and shot them and tried to actually fire bomb the Church. What is the impact of these increasingly common faith based attacks on communities? Should...

BONUS 10 PRAY IT AWAY? In the midst of all these school shootings in the United States, probably very few people heard about this shooting that happened at a Church in California, where a person was killed and five were injured when a subject came in and shot them and tried to actually fire bomb the Church. What is the impact of these increasingly common faith based attacks on communities? Should...

PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE AUSTRALIA What would happen if we got rid of the guns? The million dollar question and to answer it this episode we are firing up the time machine and heading back to 1996 in Port Arthur on the Australian Island of Tasmania. After this shooting, the country's whole governing authorities pass the toughest gun laws in the world.  It's really interesting to think in every country...

PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE AUSTRALIA What would happen if we got rid of the guns? The million dollar question and to answer it this episode we are firing up the time machine and heading back to 1996 in Port Arthur on the Australian Island of Tasmania. After this shooting, the country's whole governing authorities pass the toughest gun laws in the world.  It's really interesting to think in every country...

A NEW NORMAL? We discuss the assasination ​​Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan. A shooting in Soweto, Johannesburg and a shooting in Copenhagen….is this a shitty new normal? Plus we discuss the ethical true crime, no “trauma porn” here. Message us on instagram :   @conmunitypodcast     @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling  And for all things Katherine Sch...

A NEW NORMAL? We discuss the assasination ​​Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan. A shooting in Soweto, Johannesburg and a shooting in Copenhagen….is this a shitty new normal? Plus we discuss the ethical true crime, no “trauma porn” here. Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast   @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling  And for all things Katherine Schwei...

DOES GUN ACCESS = GUN VIOLENCE? A global look at what the research tells us… This episode we are joined by Dr Adam Lankford , Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama.  He is the author of a 2016 study:  Public Mass Shooters and Firearms : A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries. A study that seeks to answer the question of whether gun access equals higher rates o...

DOES GUN ACCESS = GUN VIOLENCE? A global look at what the research tells us… This episode we are joined by Dr Adam Lankford , Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama.  He is the author of a 2016 study: Public Mass Shooters and Firearms : A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries. A study that seeks to answer the question of whether gun access equals higher rates of...

FBI + MI5  What could be so important that the Head of UK’s MI5, Ken McCallum and the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, would make the rare move of appearing at a joint press conference? Listen here or check out the Video on our Patreon site to find out why .  Patreon.com/stopthekilling  Message us on instagram :   @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopt...

FBI + MI5  What could be so important that the Head of UK’s MI5, Ken McCallum and the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, would make the rare move of appearing at a joint press conference? Listen here or check out the Video on our Patreon site to find out why.  Patreon.com/stopthekilling  Message us on instagram :  @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories WANT TO SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthe...

*****THIS IS PART 2. Please start with the previous episode Episode 6: Saving Sycamore Part 1******* SAVING SYCAMORE Part 2 The School Shooting that never was…. In part one of our interview with the Medal of Honour recipient, Molly Hudgens, she had us hanging on every word as she recounted the day a child walked into her office with a loaded gun. She was the only thing that stood between a gunman...

*****THIS IS PART 2. Please start with the previous episode Episode 6: Saving Sycamore Part 1******* SAVING SYCAMORE Part 2 The School Shooting that never was…. In part one of our interview with the Medal of Honour recipient, Molly Hudgens, she had us hanging on every word as she recounted the day a child walked into her office with a loaded gun. She was the only thing that stood between a gunman...

BONUS 7  FEDERAL GUN REFORMS  We are back for another bonus episode of Stop the Killing because there's been some interesting developments in the Federal gun laws. These are the first Federal gun reforms in three decades. So what are they? What will they mean in practice? And what does Katherine think will be the most impactful of the reforms or tinkering as she likes to call them? If you want mor...

BONUS 7  FEDERAL GUN REFORMS  We are back for another bonus episode of Stop the Killing because there's been some interesting developments in the Federal gun laws. These are the first Federal gun reforms in three decades. So what are they? What will they mean in practice? And what does Katherine think will be the most impactful of the reforms or tinkering as she likes to call them? If you want mor...

SAVING SYCAMORE The School Shooting that never was…. S2E6 We've got a very special interview for you this episode. Normally each episode of STOP THE KILLING we find ourselves trolling through the loss and devastation caused in the aftermath of a mass shooting. But this episode, we've a sliding doors story with a different ending. So here is a question, how many of us would know what to do if we fo...