The Dickey Amendment helped only the NRA, while doing nothing to protect gun owners’ rights.
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Fears mount that New Jersey shooting was anti-Semitic attack
The gunfight left six people dead, including the shooters, according to Mayor Steven Fulop.
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Commentary: We need primary mental health care providers to end stigma, prevent crises
Our current system focuses on identifying existing illnesses. A better system would include regular psychological checkups and preventive care.
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Maine Voices: In today’s classrooms, educators’ focus turns to keeping students alive
Teachers are taking lessons, and they’re on preparing for mass shootings, binding wounds and recognizing signs of abuse.
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Maine Voices: Take reasonable steps to keep guns away from children
The Legislative Council should advance proposals to keep guns out of child care centers and safely stored by home care providers.
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Maine Voices: Solution to school shootings must come from within each institution
Bring family and school together, so parents and students are part of the same community and young people become each other’s supporters.
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Minnesota violence project aims to understand mass shootings
Minnesota researchers have created a new database that seeks to help understand circumstances that contribute to mass shooting incidents in the United States
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Our View: Maine 2nd District candidate’s gun raffle is an immature political stunt
Eric Brakey may think he’s being provocative, but he ought to know better.
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Wisconsin jury awards $450,000 in Sandy Hook defamation case
The father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was awarded $450,000 after he filed a lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who claimed the massacre never happened.
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Texas police officer charged with murder in shooting of woman in her home
The city is still reeling from an earlier fatal shooting involving a white officer and a black victim, and local leaders have called for a probe of the department after Atatiana Jefferson was shot through her window.