At least 895 children aged 5 and under have managed to find a gun and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else from 2015 to 2022, according to Everytown. This year, a 6-year-old boy shot his infant sib
In recent months, the public conversation about youth gun violence in Durham has shifted from prevention to how it may be affecting young people’s mental health. Child psychologists say that children who are exposed to gun violence may experience post-traumatic stress disorder ...
Thirty people died in the attack. Sixty more were injured [source: Mahshud]. From a purely strategic standpoint, suicide bombings are chillingly logical. By concealing explosives on a willing carrier, a faction can smuggle death into densely populated areas or close to key targets. The...
She was deeply shaken by the killings, particularly by how some of the women died shielding their children from gunfire. But she considers herself pro-Second Amendment: “I want to be able to defend myself if someone comes calling ...
… How would you die from that? Angela was shot dead center in the chest, testified the medical examiner, and died in seconds. CHRIS PRICHARD (police interview): I would've loved to have stuck around but Angie and her temper … I thought maybe it didn't even really hit her that bad...
In the 72 years since his address, America has become a battlefield where even our children are not safe. Since Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, more Americans have died from gun violence than in all of our nation’s wars,combined. If America was a foreign ...
Gun Violence Many of us have heard many times, “Guns don’t kill people on their own, it takes a person to pull the trigger.” Even if people find this statement to be true, guns are an issue that needs to be addressed. A gun is simply an easy tool that people can use and mani...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named Antonio became fast friends. Both called “Tone,”…
and was forced to take or get injected with unknown medicines. She claimed that people detained there were suffering from torture everyday, and she herself witnessed the death of nine women. She said that one of her sons died in the Urumqi Children's Hospital, and nobody told her why he...
Ninety-one percent of children under 14 who died by gun violence were in the United States. And 92 percent of young people between ages 15 and 24 killed by guns were in the United States, the study found. Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway/The American Journal of Medicine Murder is the ...