What can be done to address gun violence in America? American gun violence is complicated. While there is no one single law that will forever end it, there are many evidenced-based policies that can reduce the number of people, including children, shot and killed every year in mass shootings, homicides, domestic violence shootings, firearm suicides, and unintentional shootings. Here are
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A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics reported that shootings are the third leading cause of death for American children. The number of young people dying in Nashville is certainly evidence of this disturbing trend. *UPDATE: Since this post was published February 8, another Nashville teen has been shot. 16-year-old Demario Crowder was shot multiple times outside Pearl-Cohn High School just minutes
Read moreby Mike Brunker and Polly DeFrank (excerpted from MSNBC.com) There are at least 554 reasons to ask whether American children are safer from gun violence today than they were three years ago, when the unthinkable happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That’s how many kids under the age of 12 have died from gunshots — both intentional and accidental — since
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