Showing posts with label mass shootings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mass shootings. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

American gun culture is based on frontier mythology – but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West

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  In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, 70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control ...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here’s what the data tells us

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  A spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

5 ways to reduce school shootings

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  After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, psychology professor Paul Boxer and his colleagues reviewed research to see what...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

What we know about mass school shootings in the US – and the gunmen who carry them out

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  When the Columbine High School massacre took place in 1999. it was seen as a watershed moment in the United States – the worst mass shoot...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

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  The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the no...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Mourning after mass shootings isn’t enough – a sociologist argues that society’s messages about masculinity need to change

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  Last month Americans marked the anniversary of the tragic loss of children and teachers at Sandy Hook.   After any mass shooting, America...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Most school shooters get their guns from home – and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up

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  Four days before a 15-year-old sophomore killed four students and wounded others at a high school shooting in Michigan, his father purcha...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Analyzing online posts could help spot future mass shooters and terrorists

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  In the weeks following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, police forces across the United States made more than 20 ar...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines must be banned

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  Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines have repeatedly been used to commit some of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history, a...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1605: It is so painful, it hurts deep down inside

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  Sometimes I have to speak. Sometimes I have to write. I am not anxious to speak. I write every week, but I am not anxious to write. But so...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Five ways the Trump budget undermines gun violence prevention and school safety efforts

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  In his address to the nation the day after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 stud...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

How a mass shooting made my town an advocate for gun safety

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  My rough, unscientific estimate is that we are about three-quarters of the way through the national grieving process for Las Vegas. Americ...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Myth vs. Fact: Debunking the gun lobby’s favorite talking points

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  The gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association (NRA), pursues a number of different policies in state legislatures across the countr...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Domestic terror threat remains serious five years after Sikh massacre

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  Five years after the deadly white supremacist attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, there are troubling signals from the Trump administrat...