The secretary of education offers prayers and thoughts on her signature issues, but little on the current pressing issues for students and educators: guns and school safety.
Gun Violence
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Parkland Copycats Bide Their Time
Law enforcement officers thwarting school plots seize caches of weapons as the gun debate continues.
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GOP: The Party of Death
Shortened lives, whether from gun violence or lack of health care, is of no concern to Republican leaders.
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Q&A: What Cities Can Do About the Gun Epidemic
A conversation with former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter
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Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings: Why Existing Laws Fail
State and federal lawmakers should take a closer look at the links between abuse and murder and work on new laws to stop batterers from acquiring guns.
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New Police Crimes Database Provides Law Enforcement Accountability Tool
In September, Bowling Green State University in Ohio published the country’s first online police crime database. It’s a small but noteworthy milestone for groups like Black Lives Matter who have called for greater law enforcement accountability as police brutality and the shootings of African Americans by officers have continued to dominate headlines. The Henry A. […]
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How the NRA Made the Gun a Symbol of Tribal Identity
For years, the gun lobby has framed opposition to gun regulation as being the on the side of angels in America’s culture wars.
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The Virginia Shooting Isn’t About Bernie. It’s About the Right’s Embrace of Guns.
Concentrating on James Hodgkinson’s political leanings obscures the real problem of gun violence in America—and why it’s happening.
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A Price Confirmation Would Continue Obstruction of Gun Violence Research
The prospects for reinvigorating gun violence research could become even more remote. Federal funding for studies into gun violence and gun-related deaths has effectively been frozen for the last two decades, a worrying trend that looks to continue under a Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, especially if the Senate confirms Representative Tom Price, President […]
