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Biden administration to suggest model ‘red flag’ gun laws for states

BY: - April 8, 2021

The administration is not taking action on a ban on assault rifles. But after the mass shooting in Colorado where 10 people were killed, the president called on Congress to ban the weapons. 

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My family’s experience explains why mental health reform has to be part of the solution to mass shootings | Mark O’Keefe

BY: - April 7, 2021

While taking the guns out of the hands of the mentally ill who are dangerous would be a good start, actually helping those people deal with their problems would be the best course of action.

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Mass shootings destroy lives and perpetuate institutional racism against Black and Brown Americans | Opinion

BY: - April 4, 2021

When one group of gun violence victims garners condemnation while another group doesn’t, it is simply another form of structural racism.

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Mass shootings are rare. Gun suicides are much more common, and kill more Americans | Opinion

BY: - March 30, 2021

Gun violence as a whole is much more common, and much more deadly, than mass shootings are.

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‘Freedom’ is not another word for selfishness and greed. But from guns to the pandemic, we’re treating it that way | Ray E. Landis

BY: - March 28, 2021

Allowing individuals to own military grade weapons is not a path to progress in the United States.

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Ban assault weapons. Every last damn one of them. The answer is staring us in the face | John L. Micek

BY: - March 25, 2021

What do we now? Where do we go next? We know the answer. Now legislators need to summon the courage to finally act. 

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Let’s support these three, commonsense gun violence measures | Opinion

BY: - March 25, 2021

By Ben Sanchez A grocery store in the college town of Boulder, Colorado, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Various massage parlors in the southern metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia, the most populous capital city in the U.S. A home in Phoenix, Arizona, where a family situation took a deadly turn. A home in Indianapolis, Indiana, where another interpersonal […]

‘We all belong here’: House, Senate Dems rally against AAPI violence; call for passage of hate crimes bill

BY: - March 24, 2021

More than a week after a gunman in Atlanta killed eight people, six of them Asian-American women, Democrats in the state House and Senate rallied Wednesday in support of Pennsylvania’s Asian-American residents, and called for action on a long-sought package of legislation aimed at fighting hate crimes in the state. “Asians are asking who’s next,” […]

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She’s a hunter from rural Pa. who supports gun reform. Will lawmakers finally listen? | Wednesday Morning Coffee

BY: - March 24, 2021

This time, advocates are calling in Pennsylvanians who speak Republicans' language on gun reform. Will it work?