OP note: I am 100% FOR the new youth gun control movement and I think it is just wonderful. That being said, there are others who seem to have been forgotten.
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In light of U.S. gun violence protest, black students in Baltimore ask: Where is our march?

In 2017, city of Baltimore had over 300 homicides
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'We will light 17 candles': Dunblane families write to Parkland students

Open letter from families affected by 1996 shootings at Scottish primary school backs gun control campaign

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OP note: I just wanted to make a post about this because it's so horrible and yet, will things *ever* change?

The article is behind the cut in case it might be triggering.

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The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day.(1 ( Read more... )

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has apologized for his website’s role in spreading a fake news story that inspired an armed man to storm a pizzeria in search of abused children in December.

Jones, who operates the website Infowars, had suggested that Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., was hiding child sex slaves in its basement as part of a ( Read more... )

World Peace Achieved by Giving Everyone a Weapon. What Could go Wrong?

Global Arms Sales Paint Chilling Picture of World at War

Global sales of major arms systems have risen over the past five years to the highest volume since the end of the Cold War, according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute’s (SIPRI) annual report on arms sales ( Read more... )

A lone shooter opened fire Friday afternoon at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, killing five people and wounding eight others before being taken into custody, the Broward County sheriff said ( Read more... )

A jury on Thursday convicted Dylann Roof of slaughtering nine black members of a Charleston, South Carolina, church.

He was convicted of 33 federal charges, from hate crimes to the obstruction of the practice of religion.

Roof, 22, walked into the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, commonly referred to as “Mother Emanuel,” in ( Read more... )

Seven people involved in the anti-federal government occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have been found not guilty of conspiring to impede federal workers from doing their jobs, including Ammon and Ryan Bundy ( Read more... )

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