Shootings 81/1,202 Deaths 73/1,962 Injuries Assault weapons ban This would prohibit the sale of many high-powered rifles.Read more After the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, some members of Congress pushed to restorean assault weapons banthat had expired in 2004...
First, it uses a novel approach to estimate how many police shootings are "tragic mistakes"鈥攊.e. killings of individuals that posed no threat. The approach is novel because it estimates based on the proportion of police killed by civilians versus civilians killed by police. This allows us ...
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Mass shootings have effects on communities that are felt long after the day's tragedy. School shootings in particular can have physical, emotional and behavioral effects on kids — even if the shooting occurred on the other side of the country.
perhaps country music's second-best known state, passed20 percent of all anti-LGBTQIA+legislation in the U.S. What's more, LGBTQIA+ people and culture have been targeted by numerous attacks around the world — including the Pulse nightclub and Club Q shootings stateside — in the last few ...
the school shootings were fake. the terror was real the health monitoring boom only gets weirder from here event: join us for wired health on march 18 in london leah feiger is wired's senior politics editor. she is the former managing editor of vice news. senior editor topics podcasts ...
Judson L. Pierce:Right, and you mentioned that they’re interested or thinking about safety and security. Probably, that all got started with the events in 2001 in New York, and Pennsylvania and Washington but that it carries on to the present day with all the almost weekly ...
Women cry while attending a vigil at Jug Tavern Park following a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., Sept. 4, 2024.Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters With each school shooting, thenumber of people affected by school shootings grows, as do the conversations parents ...
A 1994assaultweapons ban, designed to reduce the number of deadly mass shootings nationwide, restricted civilian ownership of new military-grade weapons. The result? Gun massacres dropped significantly during the ban and then skyrocketed after it expired in 2004. The U.S. House has passed a new...
Firearm violence has become the leading killer of children and young adults under 24, surpassing deaths from vehicle collisions since 2017. And while daily headlines emphasize news of mass shootings, most firearms-related deaths and injuries are preventable and occur in a familiar place—at home. J...