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Guns Don’t Kill People
Wackenhut Services, a contractor that provides security services to the federal government, hired Devin Bailey as a security officer. Wackenhut tested Bailey's firearms proficiency, issued him a gun, and sent him to work at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A month later, Bailey shot and killed himself with the gun. Bailey had suffered from mental illness throughout his brief adult life. He withdrew from college and within days of joining the Navy, he was hospitalized for psychosis and discharged. Later, Bailey assaulted a police officer, which led to an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Although Wackenhut's in-house background check revealed Bailey's outstanding warrant, management did not look into the issue before giving Bailey the gun. Nor did Wackenhut obtain his military service record. Following his death, Bailey's mother sued Wackenhut, claiming that they failed to adequately investigate Bailey's background and negligently issued him a gun. She pointed to a federal law, which prohibits any "fugitive from justice," "mental defec- tive," or person "who has been committed to a mental institution" from possessing firearms. The Court ruled in Wackenhut's favor, stating that even if the company was negligent in arming Bailey, the act of suicide generally is considered to be a deliberate act, in which Wackenhut cannot be liable.
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In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal, but also by the armed school resource officer who will be stationed permanently on campus. City officials decided to place a school police officer at every elementary, middle and high school after the horrific
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incident at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. "It is a relief to have them here," Lakeside Elementary School Principal Linda Pazos said Monday, the first day of school.
In the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook, lawmakers in every state in the nation introduced school safety legislation this year, and in at least 20 states those proposals became law, according to the National Conference of State Legisla- tures. Many districts across the nation increased the number of school resource officers on campus and, in a few cases, permit teachers to carry concealed weapons themselves. An armed security presence is now standard in many of the nation's middle and high schools, but it has been rarity at elementary schools.
Bernard James, a professor of constitutional law at Pepper- dine University in Malibu, Calif., said one clear trend among legislation introduced since Newtown has been assessing the security of elementary school campuses.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
8th Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry, October 23 – 26, Ghent, Belgium
Emergency Management in a Changing World, October 25 – 39, 2013, Reno, Nevada
2013 Annual Conference Multidisciplinary Threat Management, Australia-Asia Association of Threat Professionals, 14 – 15 November, Melbourne, Australia
Lone Worker Safety 2013: November 26, 2013, London, England
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