Tag: Gun Violence
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Nation & World
U.S. hurtles toward new record for mass shootings
Steven Dettelbach cites advances in gun technology, lack of restrictions on access, says change will come when Americans demand it.
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Other countries put lives before guns. Why can’t we?
Harvard Chan School’s David Hemenway on the rampage in Maine, how ordinary citizens should respond, and the question he hears from horrified students new to the U.S.
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Nation & World
The link between gentrification and gun violence
Comparison with other communities finds rate is 62 percent higher, according to new study.
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Nation & World
How birth year predicts exposure to gun violence
Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
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Nation & World
Mass shootings reignite youth gun control push
Parkland survivor Jaclyn Corin ’23 says her March for Our Lives group demands federal curbs at June 11 protests in D.C., hundreds of cities, towns.
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Nation & World
Stopping toxic flow of guns from U.S. to Mexico
Mexican officials, Harvard health policy scholars, and Georgetown law professor discuss a landmark lawsuit targeting U.S. firearm firms.
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Nation & World
Standoff over gun laws
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics discussion underscores difficulties of reconciling views on guns and public safety in U.S.
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Nation & World
Gun violence in America
The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School should galvanize Americans to view gun violence as a public health crisis, says David Hemenway, professor of health policy and author of “Private Guns, Public Health.”