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Gun Violence

WATCH: Parkland Survivor Slams USA Today for Giving Mass Murderer Notoriety He Killed to Achieve

As Gun Violence Finally Gets Hearing, Teen Parkland Survivor Implores Lawmakers: 'Give My Generation a Chance'

Julia Conley, staff writer

Gun violence is "a uniquely American issue and it is uniquely in each of your hands to help fix it," one witness told a House committee at the first hearing on the subject in eight years

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Watch: Devastating New 'Land of the Free' Music Video Decries Violence and Cruelty of Trump's America

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The Killers' "Land of the Free" music video

Set to a short film by Spike Lee, The Killers take on Trump's wall, tear-...

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DeVos' Solution to Mass School Shootings? Scrap the Rules Designed to End Discrimination Against Students of Color

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"The Trump administration's response to school shootings is to make it easier (...

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Telling NRA #ThisIsOurLane, Doctors' Photos Show Blood-Soaked Reality of America's Gun Madness

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'We Do Not Welcome Him': Protests Planned as Trump Defies Requests He Stay Away From Pittsburgh

'We Wish to Respond to Evil With Good': Muslims Raise Over $120,000 in 48 Hours for Victims of Anti-Semitic Mass Shooting

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'You Are Not Welcome in Pittsburgh': Jewish Group Tells Trump to Stay Out After Anti-Semitic Mass Shooting

Pittsburgh Police says there are ‘‘multiple casualties’’ in a mass shooting near a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Yet Again: 11 Dead in Mass Shooting At Pittsburgh Synagogue

The Clear Victim, Not the 'Perpetrator of a Crime': Outrage After Police and Local News Outlet Smear Botham Jean

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

DeVos Condemned for Considering 'Unprecedented' and 'Sickening' Plan to Spend Public Funds on Guns for Teachers

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'The Young People Will Win': New Analysis Shows Youth Voter Registration Surged After Parkland Shooting

Reporters in Annapolis Cover Shooting in Their Own Newsroom After Gunman Kills Colleagues

Calling Gun Violence a Public Health Epidemic, Nation's Doctors Call for Assault Weapons Ban

'Call It Like It Is': After Texas Shooting, Progressives Say Refusal to Take on NRA Leading to 'Slaughter After Slaughter'

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Violence Policy Center

NRA Has Worked for Decades to Block Efforts to Regulate Type of Explosive Reportedly Contained in Bombs Targeting Political Figures, Media, and Others

Amnesty International

USA: Gun Violence Is 'a Human Rights Crisis' - New Report...

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Amnesty International Reaction to Conclusion of Trial of Death of Hadiya Pendleton

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Jesse Hagopian

A Climate of Racism Took Two Lives at My Kroger

Robert C. Koehler

Gunfire and Wildfire: The New Abnormal

Camillo Mac Bica

A Celebration of Killing and Dying

Robert C. Koehler

The Issues That Won't Go Away

Steven Singer

The World Mourns for Jews After Pittsburgh’s Synagogue Shooting. What About Other Targets of Hate?

Steven Singer

The Pittsburgh Community is Stronger Than the Synagogue Shooter’s Hate

Pierre Tristam

Trump’s Responsibility

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson

‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Encourage Dangerous Vigilantism

Will Bunch

Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us

Robert C. Koehler

Poverty, Violence, and Spiritual Wildfires

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