Child Access Prevention Laws and Gun Safety As we see more and more gun violence, including school shootings, something has to be done to protect our kids and keep them safe. There are many types of gun violence that gun safety advocates are concerned about, including: homicides mass shootings...
city’s greatly reduced reliance on youth incarceration during his tenure. On the other hand, he said, it shouldn’t be surprising that Philadelphia still has a higher rate than other places in Pennsylvania or cities such as New York, given Philly’s high poverty rate...
His parents appeared unaware of his escalating mental health crisis and obsession with violence. They were reportedly oblivious to hisdepression, declining grades, disturbingsocial mediaposts, and purchase of a Nazi knife and "Born to Kill" shirt. His father even testified that he was ...
You have a moral and often legal obligation to give them the tools and information they need for times when you’re not around. For Watts, tackling the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. is a two-pronged approach. “We need to send a message to the gun lobby that Americans will not ...
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,”…
Do you think the American media does a good job of covering gun violence? I don’t, and as I feel like being a journalist, I understand why they don’t. If there’s an area where people keep being shot, then each time there’s a shooting, in crude news values, it becomes less ...
The introduction described the author’s opinion as, “an argument by Jones that bloody videogames, gun-glorifying gangsta rap and other forms of ‘creative violence’ help far more children than they hurt, by giving kids a tool to master their rage.” The articles asked if the author was...
Child abuse and neglect has increased 40% since 1985. Records from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) indicate that more adolescents die from gunfire than from any illness. NCHS records also indicate that homicide is the ...
violence at such a high frequency that it can be seen as a “typical phenomenon” (Stokes & Jackson,2016). Multiple studies have found that child victimization by peers, separate from family maltreatment or other adverse abuse, links to the development of psychosis such as hallucinations and ...
A few of the statistics stood out to me.100% of the classroom avengers’ felt like a social outcast,80% felt teased and victimized, 60% were suicidal, 67% used a gun from home, and 87% felt chronic anger. The profile concluded that the typical avenger was not extremely violent in scho...