Gun Violence
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Mayor Wants $59M Investment to Reduce D.C. Gun Violence
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday outlined her fiscal 2022 budget proposal's $59 million investment in reducing the city's gun…
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Miami Joins Nation’s Surge of Cities Facing Deluge of Senseless Shootings
Large-scale shootings have not stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic — they’ve just become less public, researchers say.
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Residents, Officials Rail Against Gun Violence at Prince George’s Rally
Prince George’s County elected officials, community leaders and residents clad in orange T-shirts filled part of a parking lot Tuesday…
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: America’s Penchant for Guns Borders on Obsession, Not Our Second Amendment Rights
Yes, the U.S. Constitution gives American citizens the right to keep and bear arms. But we do not have the…
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Biden Announces Executive Orders to Curb Gun Violence ‘Epidemic’
Determining that "enough is enough," President Joe Biden announced Thursday a series of executive actions to reduce gun violence.
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EDITORIAL: Seven Mass Shootings in Seven Days — Haven’t We Had Enough?
This is no longer a political issue for debate.
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Prevalence of ‘Leaky Guns’ Leads to New Initiative with ‘Teeth’
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recently announced a new position in the District, Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator, after homicide rates and…
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Black Children 6 Times Likelier to Be Fatally Shot by Police: Study
Black children were six times more likely to be shot to death by the police than their white peers over…
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College Park Researcher Devoted to Plight of African-American Male Shooting Victims
Steven "Smack" Stax talked about arriving by ambulance to the trauma unit of a D.C. area hospital suffering from multiple…
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Two Arrested in 2002 Killing of Hip-Hop Legend Jam Master Jay
Two men have been arrested in the 2002 slaying of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay, law enforcement officials in New York…
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