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Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting

Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting

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 Journalist Ryan Burrow has covered ten mass shootings. He looks at the data that could unlock answers and end the epidemic. The points of interruption are there. If we walk things backward, expose those points, and add the voices we've been avoiding, we may finally understand the truth.(c) WGN Radio, All Rights Reserved Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Three Part 2 – Security, Culture, and Laws

    Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Three Part 2 – Security, Culture, and Laws
    Feb 4 2026
    WGN’s Ryan Burrow looks at the cultures of guns and mental health in opposite corners of the world, South Korea and Germany. These are two countries have long histories of war and violence, yet mass shootings and violence are rare. Ryan speaks with Sung Joon Cho, MD, PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Samsung […]
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  • Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Three Part 1 – Security, Culture, and Laws

    Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Three Part 1 – Security, Culture, and Laws
    Oct 14 2025
    WGN’s Ryan Burrow looks at security upgrades at Chicago’s Lollapalooza. He speaks with Chad Green, creator of an AI-based gun detection system for Omnilert (https://www.omnilert.com/), designed to make schools safer. And he talks with William Philp, a parent of two Apalachee High School students, who has been fighting for tighter school security following the 2024 […]
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  • Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Two Part 4 – He’s Shooting!

    Interrupting the Next Mass Shooting: Chapter Two Part 4 – He’s Shooting!
    Aug 4 2025
    WGN’s Ryan Burrow questions his own motives as he wraps up coverage of the 2025 trial of Robert Crimo III. Crimo was convicted and sentenced in the 2023 Highland Park shooting at a Fourth of July parade. Ryan speaks with Harold Ng, a victim of the 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting.
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