Gun violence in American and Canadian schools is an ongoing tragedy that goes substantially beyond its roots in the interlocking emotional and behavioral issues of mental health and bullying. In light of the need for effective policy development, Dianne T. Gereluk, J. Kent Donlevy, and Merlin ...
Gun Violence Effects I still remember the day: 2nd October 2015. My professor, always punctual, arrived five minutes late to the class. Any other day, if a student was late to the class, she had a few strict words, so we were all curious about the reason she would provide. “I wante...
After the shooting, performers at Irish dance schools around the country wore purple ribbons -- one of Cara's favorite colors -- in her honor, The Miami Herald reported. Cara, survived by her parents and her older brother, "was an excellent student" who loved her 8-year-old nieces, said...
Before the mid-1990s, schools weren’t required to report firearm possession. However, local newspapers and the FBI tracked such incidents when they posed a threat. To understand school shootings before and after the implementation of gun-free zones, we need to delve deeper. The representation of...
As more communities reel from deadly mass shootings – including Dadeville, Alabama, where four people were killed and 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend – there’s evidence that the trauma of gun violence in the United States is taking a collective toll on the nation...
Youth gun violence has also gained the attention of the state’s educational leaders. At the end ofState of Urgency’s run, Catherine Truitt, the superintendent of the NC Department of Public Instruction, invited its cast members to a meeting she hosted at the Education Bu...
"They specialize in child development and helping the child to cope with that injury from their early presentation to the hospital," she told ABC News. Hoops, who is also core faculty at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, added ...
is honored to have the endorsement of many groups working to take on the epidemic of violence, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and its Million Mom March chapters, the Newtown Action Alliance, and Everytown for Gun Safety—including Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in ...
In the year of 2022, 6,137 children and teens were injured or killed in shootings, according to the nonprofit organization. That's the most in a single year since the database began tracking nine years ago. Can children protect themselves from the shadow of gun violence?
Their objective was clear: to reach the Normandy beaches along about 80 kilometres of French coastline. But even in the depths of war, few could have been prepared for the violence and horror they would experience t...