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Gun Violence

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Guns in the Mental Health Clinic: Not Therapeutic
The tragic case of a psychiatrist firing a gun to protect himself and others from a patient who had just shot a caseworker to death illuminates the unrealistic expectation …

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Goons Guns and Georgia
Grandparents reflect on Georgia gun laws.

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An American Horror Story
The details of one of the more gruesome recent everyday mass gun murders invite us to consider gun control and gun possession from a new perspective.

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Guys With Guns
The US government should be making it more difficult to sell weapons - at home as well as abroad.

“The Revolution Has Begun”: How the Gun Industry Drives the Violent Rhetoric of the NRA
The violent, anti-authoritarian rhetoric from the recent Las Vegas shootings is far from fringe. In fact, it's the primary message promoted by the gun industry and the NRA.

Beyond Drones and Stop-and-Frisk
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health
After mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually …

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Democrats Push to Restart CDC Funding for Gun Violence Research
Two Congressional Democrats are unveiling legislation this morning that would restart the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's gun violence research efforts.

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New Jersey Allowed to Require “Justifiable Need” to Carry a Firearm in Public
Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment includes the right to bear arms in self defense, guns rights advocates, led by the NRA, have challenged …

Was Kansas Shooting Avoidable? White Supremacist was Ex-Informant with Criminal Past and Hateful Views
Notorious white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller has been charged with killing three people at two Jewish community sites in Kansas. Miller has openly railed against Jews and African Americans …