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Congress could save billions of dollars in preventable health care costs by reducing gun violence simply by requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales in the US.
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Washington, DC--In a letter sent today to the White House, America’s six national gun violence prevention (GVP) organizations--the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, Coalition ...
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By now you will have heard of Major Nidal Malak Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who shot 13 of his colleagues dead and wounded 31 inside the army's largest base, Fort Hood in Texas, last Thursday.
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Bay State gun shops operate under some of the strictest laws in the nation when it comes to providing firepower to the public. Federal investigators said that in the case of Tarek Mehanna, the inability to get an assault rifle likely jammed his alleged plot to pull off a shopping mall massacre...
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The United States is one of the few industrialized countries without common-sense controls on gun sales. We regulate toy guns but not the real ones that kill tens of thousands every year.
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Study Finds Gun Possession of Questionable Value in an Assault
In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times ...more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.
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Armed protesters have made it clear that individual safety is not their primary concern -- instead their show of force at public events reminds elected officials that, in their view, armed citizens have the final say.
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(NECN: Lauren Collins) - Aiming for change. The laws covering gun purchases in New Hampshire are more lenient than in other parts of New England. Gun control advocates say too often weapons bought legally in the Granite State end up in Boston. ...