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Mashup Score: 7In 2019, Congress Finally Funded Gun Violence Research. Here’s How It’s Changed the Field - 3 month(s) ago
In the mid-2010s, as a series of mass shootings set new records for lethality and turned the public’s attention toward America’s gun violence epidemic, the same question was raised again and again: Why won’t the federal government fund gun violence research? Twice as much federal money was being spent on hernias and ulcers, which aren’t usually […]
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Mashup Score: 5Permitless Carry Will Deter Shootings, Proponents Said. That’s Not What’s Happened. - 5 month(s) ago
A new Trace analysis examines the rate of fatalities in states where permitless carry was made law. Most saw shooting fatalities surge.
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"What we have seen in our work and other high-quality, rigorous studies is that when you make it easier for people to carry guns in public, you see increases in firearm violence,” said @DrCrifasi, injury epidemiologist and @JHU_CGVS co-director https://t.co/OtVSYcOJfs
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Mashup Score: 10July Fourth Gun Violence Plummets to a Five-Year Low - 6 month(s) ago
Independence Day weekend is almost always the time of year when gun violence kills or injures the most people. But this year, there were fewer people shot than in any year since 2019. According to the Gun Violence Archive, 245 people were injured or killed in shootings on the holiday, a 20 percent decrease from […]
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"We’ve come a long way in a very short period of time," said @JHU_CGVS's @DanielWWebster1. "When things are getting bad we shouldn’t feel hopeless and helpless, we should get to work." https://t.co/GT31JOKVbz
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Mashup Score: 5
Named for domestic violence victim Karina González, the measure would require law enforcement officers to quickly remove guns from people who have orders of protection against them.
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"A @JHU_CGVS National Survey of Gun policy this year found that 81 percent of Americans support prohibiting a person with a temporary domestic violence restraining order from having a gun." https://t.co/4X4VItM1NQ
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Mashup Score: 1A Decade of Mass Shootings, By the Numbers - 1 year(s) ago
America is on track to have a record number of mass shootings this year. So far in 2023 there have been 531 incidents in which four or more people were wounded or killed with guns, according to Gun Violence Archive, which tracks shootings through news and police reports. That’s 17 more than this time last […]
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"The deadliest shootings tend to garner the most attention, but most mass shootings over the past decade transpired out of the national spotlight, and were just as devastating." https://t.co/eMdtAocqLb
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Mashup Score: 0How Much Are Americans Paying for Gun Violence? - 1 year(s) ago
Last year, as survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, struggled to manage both their grief and newfound financial strain, their stories echoed those of other shooting survivors, for whom the combined burden of grief, trauma, and medical bills can be overwhelming. Following a shooting, mounting medical debt, loss of employment, and mental health […]
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How Much Are Americans Paying for Gun Violence? https://t.co/3krfOO9oeD
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