Tag: gun violence
Faith-based ‘violence interrupters’ stop gang shootings with promise of redemption for...
Deanna Wilkinson, The Ohio State University
The July 4 weekend was one of the deadliest in recent U.S. history, with 160 people, including several small...
Firearm-makers may finally decide it’s in their interest to help reduce...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Mass shootings have become a routine occurrence in America.
Gun-makers have long refused to take responsibility for their role in...
Keeping students safe is a growth industry struggling to fulfill its...
John S. Carlson, Michigan State University
In the 25 years I’ve spent working as a school psychologist and professor of school psychology, I’ve never seen...
Stop blaming video games for mass killings
Christopher J. Ferguson, Stetson University
In the wake of the El Paso shooting on Aug. 3 that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a...
Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing...
Michael Hirsh, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Many of us working in the “Gun Sense” field – that is, finding a middle ground position to...
We provided psychological first aid after the Las Vegas shooting –...
Michelle Paul, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Heather Dahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and John A. Nixon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Editors’ note:...
5 things to know about mass shootings in America
Frederic Lemieux, Georgetown University
At least 10 students were killed at a Santa Fe, Texas high school on May 18 after a classmate opened fire...
A school resource officer in every school?
F. Chris Curran, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Less than three weeks after a school resource officer stopped an armed teen who shot two students...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
