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A 15-year-old sophomore killed four students in a Michigan school attack. The gun he used was purchased by his father just four days earlier.
The pandemic brought about a sharp rise in mental health concerns, deep unemployment and an unprecedented amount of social isolation – a potentially deadly combination alongside rising gun sales.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
At issue is the right to carry handguns in public, not just keep them at home.
Ten years after Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, a look at how the country has changed.
Stricter gun control laws may make mass shootings slightly less common, but other policies may work better to prevent mass shooting deaths.
The gun problem in Canada stems from sharing the world’s longest undefended border with the country that has the largest number of guns in civilian hands.
Gun violence as a whole is much more common, and much more deadly, than mass shootings are.
Mass shootings terrorize witnesses in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is also affected, a trauma psychiatrist writes.
Lockdown conditions prompted by the COVID pandemic are among the likely reasons for a spike in domestic murder-suicides in 2020.
A new analysis shows that the many Americans who have experienced being threatened by a gun or suffering a gunshot wound are significantly less likely to believe most people can be trusted.
Gun violence has killed hundreds of Americans, including kids, this summer. There are proven ways to bring peace to city streets, says an expert in violence prevention – but someone has to pay for it.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks say they are targeting hate, but they’re overlooking a major source of hateful content: gun talk.
Until we acknowledge that toxic white masculinity is fuelling mass murders, aggrieved white men will continue to commit them – and we’ll all continue to pay the price.
Did the COVID-19 pandemic have an impact on the mass shooting in Nova Scotia?
Different groups in society can suffer from social distancing practices. That includes higher risk of domestic violence, child abuse and mental health problems.
The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Sandy Hook lawsuit may lead to a flood of litigation, which ultimately may compel the gun industry to change the way it designs, markets and sells firearms.
Efforts to ‘harden’ school buildings could distract from the need to focus on human behavior and what’s known about school shooters.
Firearms are the second leading cause of death among US children and adolescents.
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Dean and Robert A Knox Professor, Boston University
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University