Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Students ask the media to publicize their images if they die in a shooting, a prison in Mississippi will replace in-person visits with low-budget Skype, and a minor planet gets its name.

The recent Parkland student suicides call attention to the long-term effects of school shootings on mental health, academic performance, and economic achievement.

Students gather at a gun control rally at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on March 14th, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spend time together at a memorial set up outside the school on February 14th, 2019, in Parkland, Florida.

Advocates for stricter gun laws and gun-violence survivors showed up to the hearing in force to share their stories and their legislative demands.

Charlie Mirsky, and Alfonso Calderon, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, take part in a Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the House Visitor Center.

Downward social mobility and scapegoating are inspiring white men to commit atrocities.

The marchers offered an array of ideas for reducing gun violence in America.

And more follow-up coverage since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, from Pacific Standard.

And how we might better prevent their deaths.

Today marks one month since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.

Research shows that over half of U.S. gun owners aren't storing all their guns safely.

In the wake of last month's deadly shooting in Parkland, Pacific Standard talked to a few leading scholars on how the insanity defense ought to be used in the courtroom.

The new bill includes funding for mental-health programs and arming teachers. It goes now to Governor Rick Scott for his signature.

Thoughts of death inspire us to cling more tightly to the beliefs that give our lives meaning—including our ideological stances.

The attorney general vowed to use the Department of Justice to confront America's gun problem. Well, sort of.

The U.S. is stuck in a vicious cycle, not just of bloodshed, but also of helplessness.