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Gun Violence
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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 …
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The PTSD Crisis That’s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods
A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war.
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
In Temescal, new residents have hired private security firms, whose patrolmen often engage in tactics of racial profiling, to patrol the area.
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Gunpowder and Blood on Their Cold, Dead Hands
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: "'Thou Shalt Not Kill,' but if you do, hide behind the Second Amendment - made holier and more sacrosanct by the NRA than God's …