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All posts tagged "gun violence"
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1.4KNewsUvalde mom sues police, gunmaker in school massacre
“There’s no accountability or transparency. There’s nothing being done,” Sandra Torres said.
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1.4KNewsMore students and teachers are being trained to triage gunshot victims
Last August, teachers and other school staff at Cypress Bay joined what the surgeon’s group says are more than 2.4 million people...
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1.2KNewsSandy Hook memorial opens nearly 10 years after 26 killed
The long-awaited memorial to the victims officially opened to the public on Sunday, drawing visitors steadily throughout the day. There was no...
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2.0KNewsAlabaman is appealing 55-year sentence for participating in a burglary ending in teen friend’s death by police
LaKeith Smith, under Alabama’s felony murder law allowing prosecutors to charge a person considered an accomplice to a crime, was faulted for...
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1.6KNewsDemand soars for kids’ books addressing violence, trauma
As anxiety and depression rates have soared among young Americans, educators and advocates say children's books can play a role in helping...
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1.4KNews25 years after Kentucky school shooting, a chance at parole
When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet...
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1.4KNewsSchool gun case sparks debate over safety and second chances
Most gun incidents in and around campuses are more like Oak Park than Uvalde. They're not planned large-scale shootings, or active-shooter situations....
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1.2KNewsStates’ plans to make school safer reflect political divides
In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, governors around the country vowed to take steps to ensure their students...
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1.6KNewsIn separate cities, hard hit by gun violence, gunshot survivors fight against firearms
The backstories of Sakran and Pep couldn’t be more different. But their survivor stories drive their activism about the public health threat...
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1.4KNewsPublic health strategists tackle New Orleans’ gun violence
The research team from Tulane’s schools of public health, medicine and social work is probing how public health concepts and practices might...
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2.6KFrom the BureausWhat happened after Minneapolis removed police officers from schools
By September 2020, 11 new unarmed public safety support specialists, many with law enforcement-related backgrounds, were in place and on the Minneapolis...
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4.6KNewsAsian-Black activism, going back decades, now is being rekindled
Launched in winter 2019 by a Black woman and an Asian American woman, both 27, People Matter echoes cross-racial collaboration extending back...
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1.4KNewsWhen students bring guns to North Carolina schools
West Charlotte High School had let out only minutes earlier when, hearing gunfire, school officials ordered an immediate lockdown and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police...
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1.6K► ReportsThe rise of firearm suicide among young Americans
Everytown for Gun Safety releases a troubling new report discussing the stark rise in firearm suicides among youth across the nation and...
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3.1KNewsNew ghost gun rule unlikely to stem violence amid thriving youth gun culture
Ghost guns — so-called because they are nearly impossible to trace — are sold in parts and assembled by the buyer. Until...
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1.1KNewsCritics link lax gun storage to accidental shootings involving youth, mostly in the South
After running toward the sound of a gunshot that still haunts her, Marentha Sargent watched her 14-year-old, Adrienne Lambert, bleeding from the...
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2.1KNewsAt home in Arkansas and globally, shooting survivor campaigns against gun violence
Between Jan. 1, 2022, and April 25, 2022, Little Rock, Ark. — the 24th most violent of 65 cities, according to the...
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1.8K► ReportsStudy: As young as 12, some rural youth regularly carry handguns
About 25% of rural youth in a University of Washington analysis said they were as young as 12 when they began carrying...
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2.5KNewsYouth activists, firearms trainers and police oppose unlicensed gun laws in Georgia and other states
On April 12, Georgia became the 22nd state allowing unlicensed gun-owners to carry a concealed weapon, one in a spate of so-called...
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2.3KNewsFor a child who killed their child, they chose restoration, not prison
The day they came face-to-face with the teen who accidentally shot and killed their son, Brad and Meagan Hulett confirmed, in their...
