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Kingsessing mass shooting reinforces need for mental health services, experts and advocates say
‘No matter what you look like or where you live, every Pennsylvanian deserves to be safe and feel safe in their community,’ Lt. Gov. Austin Davis said
Republican states arm teachers, fortify buildings in another year of school shootings | Analysis
GOP lawmakers say empowering a quick response, not gun bans, is the key to preventing shootings.
The AR-15 is ‘America’s Rifle.’ Ban it | John L. Micek
Legislation raising the minimum purchasing age for assault weapons just moved in Texas. It probably won't pass. But it's progress.
Guns and vigilantes: Fear, paranoia has created a culture of violence | Opinion
I stand in solidarity with every other person out there who refuses to cower from their neighbors behind a gun.
More dead in Alabama. It’s the guns | Brian Lyman
Did parenting make this? Or a lack of prayer? Or poor mental health services? Or the big cities? No. It’s the guns.
Police say three people are dead, five injured in MSU shooting, suspect is dead
Three people have been killed and five more people have been injured after being shot at Michigan State University.
No, guns do kill people. And the solution is glaringly obvious | Wednesday Morning Coffee
Two mass shootings in California in as many days. We know how to end the madness.
A decade after Sandy Hook, conspiracy theories still plague the culture | Opinion
Yes, Alex Jones was held accountable. No, that doesn't solve the problem.
How the health harms of mass shootings ripple across communities
By Michael Ollove A grim and familiar pattern has followed the parade of mass shootings across America. In their aftermath, the nation’s attention focuses on the direct victims of the attacks, the dead and injured, their families and friends, and the witnesses. But a growing body of research reveals that the negative effects of mass […]
U.S. Supreme Court’s gun rights decision upends state restrictions | Analysis
Six states will have to rewrite their gun laws after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
My family’s experience explains why mental health reform has to be part of the solution to mass shootings | Mark O’Keefe
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.
Ban assault weapons. Every last damn one of them. The answer is staring us in the face | John L. Micek
What do we now? Where do we go next? We know the answer. Now legislators need to summon the courage to finally act.