Tag Archives: Mass shootings

What can be done to address gun violence in America? A lot, actually.

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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Mass Shootings and Assault Weapons

UPDATE: This post has been updated to include the El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH shootings that occurred over the 24-hour period on August 3rd and 4th, 2019.  In his book “Rampage Nation” Louis Klarevas of the University of Massachusetts at Boston notes that gun massacres (defined as a shooting incident in which six or more people are shot and killed) fell

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