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The twin crises of guns and opioids have converged in parts of Indianapolis, trapping neighborhoods in a dangerous cycle. Approaches to solving these problems, however, remain disjointed, @fairriona reports with @IndyRecorder :
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On this day in 1995, former President George H.W. Bush publicly renounced his lifetime NRA membership, incensed that Wayne LaPierre called federal agents "jack-booted thugs" who robbed citizens of their constitutional rights.
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A 13-year-old Milwaukee girl who was killed when someone fired a bullet into her home Monday night wrote an award-winning essay two years ago about the "senseless gun violence" killing kids in her city.
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Washington D.C.-area high school students entered the U.S. Capitol building this afternoon to demand that House Speaker Paul Ryan pass gun reform legislation. Several were arrested. Livestreaming now:
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NRA staffers are "freaking out" after executives eliminated some key employee perks, the latest indication that the gun group is hurting for cash.
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Friends identify the Las Vegas police officer killed in Sunday's massacre: Charleston Hartfield, 34
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A grieving Parkland dad announced the launch of the Museum of Incomplete, which will feature artifacts from lives cut short by gun violence—clothing never worn, an email left unsent, artwork never finished.
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A Georgia woman who became a gun reform activist after her son was fatally shot by a white man during a dispute over loud music won the Democratic Congressional primary on Tuesday.
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Houston police chief to his Facebook friends: "Some have strong feelings about gun rights but I want you to know I’ve hit rock bottom. Please do not post anything about how guns aren’t the problem."
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"We should not have to live in a society where we have to fend for ourselves," the boy's mother said. "If I have a question, I should be able to turn to my village and knock on a door. I shouldn't be fearful of a child, let alone a skin tone."
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The nation's largest teachers union is threatening to boycott Walmart if it continues to sell guns and make financial contributions to politicians who oppose gun control.
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After asking gun owners to not bring firearms into his stores, the CEO of Levi Strauss received death threats. Undeterred, he's now donating $1M to nonprofits and youth activists working to end violence.
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Tennesseans with a valid gun permit will be allowed to bring weapons into the renovated legislative office building in Nashville—but hand-held signs are prohibited because they're "a serious safety hazard.”
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7 years ago today, a 20-year-old with a history of mental health problems killed his mother with her own gun then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and fatally shot 20 students and 6 adults before killing himself.
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The two victims of Wednesday's shooting at a Kentucky Kroger were black—and the gunman tried to enter a predominantly black church minutes before the attack.
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After a Colorado sheriff said he'd rather sit in his own jail than enforce the state's new red flag law, a woman erected a billboard in his county that reads: "More Americans have died of gun violence since 1970 than in all wars in American history."
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The mass shooting this afternoon at #RobbElementarySchool in #Uvalde , Texas, marked at least the 212th in 2022, less than 5 months into the year, according to @gundeaths data. More data on the reality of gun violence in America:
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Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, an avid hunter who used to belong to the NRA, said he turned on the group because of its refusal to address gun violence: "How do you watch this on TV and not want to do anything about it?"
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Parkland shooting survivor on tonight's @60Minutes : "Stoneman Douglas ran out of paper for, like, two weeks in the school year, and now all of a sudden they have $400 million to pay for teachers to get trained to arm themselves? Really?"
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A group of students in southern California weren't content to sit back and let lawmakers regulate guns—they wrote their own gun reform legislation, which they plan to present to the city council.
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Buried on page 719 of Trump’s newly unveiled 2019 budget: $12 million in cuts to programs within the federal gun background check system that help states report criminal and domestic violence records.
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Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp, who was once featured as an "NRA Mom," quit the gun group on her CNN show Sunday and called for sweeping gun reform: "Being right no longer feels righteous ... we must do something about guns."
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Former Homeland Security official: Santa Fe High School had two armed police officers who'd trained extensively in active shooter protocols, proving that "good guys with guns" can't always solve the problem.
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Senator Cory Booker at the #DemocraticDebate : "If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to buy and own a firearm."
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A Navy veteran with a valid concealed carry permit was fatally shot by Portland State University police on Friday when he went to pick up his handgun, which slipped from its holster as he tried to break up a fight.
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Despite reducing its gun business, Dick’s Sporting Goods saw its strongest single-quarter sales in 3 years.
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Today's incident at Great Mills High School in Maryland marks the 11th time a gun has been discharged in a K-12 school since the Parkland shooting: @GunDeaths
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An armed man blocked a highway near the Hoover Dam with an armored truck on Friday and demanded the release of the Justice Department's internal report on the Hillary Clinton email probe, which had already been released.
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Police do not believe yesterday's shooting at a Los Angeles middle school was intentional: A 12-year-old girl dropped her backpack, which contained a semiautomatic handgun, and it discharged, wounding 2 students.
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8/ Some experts have argued that schools would be better served investing in greater mental health training and resources, anti-bullying or social inclusion campaigns, better threat assessments, or gun reforms to catch the warning signs that often presage mass shootings.
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A Connecticut judge said families of Sandy Hook shooting victims can access InfoWars' internal marketing and financial documents as part of its lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who's said the massacre was a hoax.
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Two New York lawmakers are drafting a bill that would allow authorities to review 3 years of social media history and 1 year of internet search history for anyone who wants to buy a gun.
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Former ATF agent/NRA member: You don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer or protect against tyranny. They weren't even sold until the '70s, "and citizens managed to maintain their freedom just fine before then."
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On this day in 1995, former President George H.W. Bush, a gun owner and avid hunter, wrote a public letter of resignation from the NRA after Wayne LaPierre called government agents "jack-booted thugs" in a fundraising letter.
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"Even now when people come up to us quietly to say thank you, you never know if they’re trying to shoot you at close range," Parkland activist Emma González said.
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PTSD-afflicted Stoneman Douglas High School student: "We have to deal with the same disease as soldiers. We’re just kids who went to school."
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March For Our Lives organizers have announced the next phase of their movement: a 60-day, 50-stop cross-country bus tour to register young people to vote, and educate them about the NRA's influence on politics.
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4th Circuit Court today: Second Amendment protections do not extend to “weapons of war.”
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Days after Walmart and Kroger asked customers not to openly carry guns in their stores, CVS, Walgreens, and Wegmans followed suit.
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Connecticut is set to become the sixth state to ban bump stocks since the Las Vegas massacre.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins are launching a free online class to provide the March For Our Lives generation with the best available data on gun violence and the tools to interpret it.
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Thousands of teenagers are planning a die-in on the U.S. Capitol lawn tomorrow to commemorate Americans killed in mass shootings since the Pulse massacre two years ago.
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A Democratic Senator has asked the Treasury Department for any relevant documents pertaining to the NRA's ties to Russia.
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A teen activist who joined the gun reform movement after Parkland was shot and killed in Chicago last night. He died in his brother's arms.
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A woman who shot and killed her abusive husband in Alabama, a "stand your ground" state, has been charged with murder.
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Parkland survivors went to Chicago this weekend to meet with young people "who face gun violence on a level that we have only just glimpsed from our gated communities."
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After his 10-year-old niece was killed in a hail of gunfire in Washington, D.C., her uncle set off on a 130-mile walk that began on the spot where she was killed: "Now is the time that somebody step up."
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The Republican mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, and and her city's interim police chief joined a growing chorus of Texas officials calling for universal background checks and red flag laws.
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An elementary school in Pennsylvania will temporarily relocate on Wednesday because a nearby religious group will hold a blessing ceremony involving AR-15s.
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Five years ago today, a 20-year-old man fatally shot his mother, then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he killed 20 students and 6 educators. Today we are remembering them:
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Las Vegas shooting victim Denise Burditus, mom of 2 and grandma of 5, died in the arms of her husband of 32 years
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Teenage gun reformers in Phoenix managed to register at least 100 voters in the 100-degree heat on Friday.
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@mikespiesnyc @NewYorker 🧵: @NRA chief Wayne LaPierre has testified under oath that after Sandy Hook, threats on his life drove him to seek refuge on a yacht in the Bahamas. Our reporting shows he attended the wedding of his niece while he was there.
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The victims of yesterday's shooting at a Kentucky high school have been identified as Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, both 15. A classmate called them "great people": "I have never heard one negative thing come from their mouths."
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A Florida man with schizophrenia legally bought an AR-15 from a cop and killed his mother's friend and himself.
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Financial statements made public on Thursday reveal that, despite a historic fee hike, the NRA suffered a sharp decline in membership dues last year, as well as a substantial decrease in total revenue.
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👇 NEWS 👇 NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre’s Misleading Testimony About Lavish Family Benefits and Yachting in the Bahamas Read @mikespiesnyc ’s latest, published in partnership with @newyorker .
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If President Trump wants to ease the flow of migrants at the southern border, he could slow the flow of American firearms that fuel the violence they're fleeing—by tightening U.S. gun laws, @AlexYablon reported last year.
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Last year, as the nation grappled with Black Americans' death at the hands of police, an all-Black militia group rose to prominence — and was quickly muzzled. From @AlainStephens in partnership with @USATODAY ’s @willcarless :
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Student activists in Kentucky plan to greet NRA president Oliver North with a silent vigil for shooting victims when he speaks at a Republican rally on Friday.
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At the Dallas stop of the March For Our Lives voter registration bus tour, a Parkland survivor won over some of the armed counter-protesters who'd been heckling him—and brought one of them to tears.
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7/ In any case, the school hardening and active shooter training didn't forestall violence at Oxford. The county prosecutor leading the criminal case had this to say:
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The NRA is losing friends in south Florida: A Congressman who received NRA money four months after Parkland sided with Democrats to expand background checks last week.
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A gun-owning Republican state senator is introducing a red flag law in Tennessee: "Reducing gun violence will require leadership from people with a variety of backgrounds."
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The parents of two children killed at Sandy Hook are suing radio host Alex Jones for defamation, alleging that his conspiracy theory that the shooting is a hoax and victims' parents are "crisis actors" has brought them death threats.
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#SinceParkland collects stories of nearly 1,200 American kids killed by guns during the 12 months that began with the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. Take a moment to read these unforgettable portraits — doggedly reported by teen journalists.
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@mikespiesnyc @NewYorker @NRA Stephen Gillers, of the New York University School of Law, said the revelations could strengthen @NewYorkStateAG ’s case against the @NRA . “If LaPierre knowingly gave false testimony, it would be added ammunition for the A.G.’s effort to dissolve the NRA.”
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After a two-decade recruiting drought, gun researchers say a wave of young scientists are suddenly entering their field. And not just public health experts, but economists, statisticians, and epidemiologists.
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This year, Washington became the first state to put a voluntary “do not sell” law into effect for gun owners who’ve experienced periods of depression and suicidal thinking.
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NEW: The New York State Department of Financial Services has charged the NRA with illegally selling insurance products in New York and deceptively marketing those products to its members.
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On this day in 2016, Philando Castile, a permitted concealed carrier, was fatally shot by a police officer after disclosing that he was carrying a gun at a traffic stop in Minnesota. He was 32.
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Now there are two Republican senators among them. #filibuster
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@mikespiesnyc @NewYorker @NRA LaPierre said under oath that his niece was a critical employee of the gun rights organization. But records obtained by The Trace show that at key events, she did very little. In fact, for the first three years, she also worked full-time at a car dealership in Nebraska.
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A Massachusetts hospital is opening a center for gun violence prevention, which will distribute free gun locks to patients and produce research to fill the void left by a dearth of federal funding.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods, which said after Parkland that its Field & Stream locations will stop selling assault-style rifles, announced that it will destroy and recycle its remaining inventory of the weapons in accordance with federal law.
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Election Day is just 100 days away. As congressional races heat up across the country, we’ve created a tool to provide you with a real-time picture of the NRA’s spending. Introducing the NRA Campaign Spending Tracker:
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FedEx is ending a program that offers discounts for business members of the NRA. The company says the decision is financial, not political, which suggests the gun group no longer has the economic clout to inspire fear in the corporate world.
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Exclusive: FedEx drops NRA deal by snail-mail @johnsfoley
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In 2016, shootings accounted for three-quarters of all homicide deaths, the highest share recorded in over 80 years of federal mortality data.
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The head of the Illinois State Rifle Association said the state sees relatively few mass shootings because gun owners there must get an ID card to buy a firearm—and their names are run through the background check system every 24 hours.
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New Zealand gun owner who surrendered his semi-automatic rifle: "There are not too many things that you can take that number of lives with in such a short period of time. So there has to be some form of control."
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A judge said families of Sutherland Springs massacre victims can sue the Texas store that sold the gunman, a Colorado resident, a semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine. Colorado prohibits the sale of magazines over 15 rounds.
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The Colorado Springs shooting suspect’s history of violent threats made him a candidate for a gun removal order under a red flag law. But El Paso County officials have resisted enforcing the state's red flag law since its passage, @bychipbrownlee reports.
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The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods says pulling back from the gun business has cost him a quarter of a billion dollars, but he has no regrets: "If we do these things and it saves one life, don't you think it's worth it?"
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Guns were used in 70% of white supremacist extremist attacks in the U.S. from 2000-2016: @ForeignPolicy
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A program that identifies people most at risk of committing violence and offers them resources to turn their lives around has driven down gun violence in Savannah, Georgia, this year.
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"For economically insecure, irreligious white men, the gun is a ubiquitous symbol of power and independence. Guns provide a way to regain their masculinity, which they perceive has been eroded by increasing economic impotency."
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#SinceParkland , at least 1,200 kids and teens across the U.S. have died by gun—in homicides, domestic violence, and accidental shootings. The Trace and @MiamiHerald worked with 200+ student journalists to tell their stories.
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At least 73 teenagers have died of gunshot wounds in the 37 days since the Parkland massacre, including a pregnant 18-year-old killed by her boyfriend, a 14-year-old killed by his father, and a 17-year-old who killed himself.
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