Sentences with phrase «between gun violence»

Searching for ways to respond to last month's Florida school shooting, Trump has questioned the impact of video games, although decades of research have failed to find a link between gun violence and graphic depictions of violence in games.

Telephone lines are open for viewer comments on the relationship between gun violence and violent video games.

Earnshaw said that although research has not made strong connections between gun violence in schools and stigma - based bullying, some signs are there.

If you're also slashing aid to research of mental health, if you are cutting ways to research the link between gun violence and mental health, you can't just say it's a mental health issue.

Not exact matches

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

Based on the research, the presence of more guns typically translates to much more general gun violence, while justified uses of a gun for self - defense are few and far between.

Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation, around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.

Between hunger, poverty, child abuse, sex slavery, kidnapping, gun violence, and everything else, it's hard not to feel discouraged by the state of the world.

Last year, the de Blasio administration joined the City Council to disburse $ 12.7 million between community organizations and social services tasked with reducing gun violence and offering supportive programs for local youth.

«Building on the Women's Equality Agenda, we are continuing our mission for progressive values and women's rights with this legislation to target the unquestionable relationship between domestic violence and gun violence.»

«With this legislation, we can sever the undeniable connection between domestic abuse and deadly gun violence, and continue to build upon the strongest gun laws in the nation.»

«There is a strong correlation between sensible gun laws and low gun - death rates and that continues to be the case here in New York state,» countered Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

This approach, which builds bridges between law enforcement and the community, has yielded positive results in Albany, and it could help in Troy, where gun violence has flared in parts of the city in recent months.

While there are some differences in these three examples, one item is a constant: the ever - growing divide between the funding needed for social programs to combat issues like addiction and drug overdose deaths and gun violence, and the willingness of our elected officials to provide the necessary funds.

The death of an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was caught in the crossfire between two gangs hours before New York City's West Indian Day parade, should be a call to action to quell gun violence in the city, the governor told mourners Saturday at the slain aide's funeral.

Syracuse TRUCE started two years ago, as a collaboration between police and community service organizations with the aim of reducing gun violence in the city.

In their article, the authors underscore that although teasing apart the intricacies between gun laws and related violence can be very difficult, evidence increasingly shows that stricter gun laws in the U.S. can reduce crime.

Such work might include, for example, studies to understand the causes of and potential preventive strategies for gun violence, including scrutiny of any association between video games, media images, and violence, as well as the collection of more comprehensive data on firearm - related deaths.

Carter said, «After controlling for a range of possible explanatory factors, the relationship between firearm violence and subsequent legal gun permitting is quite present.»

As such, there could be unique differences between firearm and non-firearm violence that might influence people's decision to want to carry a gun, says Carter.

«Support was strongest — with little difference between gun - owners and non-owners — for universal background checks, barring people with temporary restraining orders for domestic violence from having guns and stronger regulations of licensed gun dealers.»

An assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, she has been using data from new surveillance technology to research the disparity between the number of recorded gunshot sounds and the number of reported incidents of gun violence.

The American Public Health Association, in contrast, issued a statement praising the administration's support for violence research and increased mental health care, noting that» [t] here is an irrefutable link between access to guns and increased homicides.»

Report calls for better data on ownership of firearms, gun - related deaths and injuries, and exploration of link between violence and media

Clinton said the answer lies in fostering trust between police and communities, implementing criminal justice reform, and «tackling gun violence.»

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - In three scenes, one man shoots another man between the eyes below the frame; we see the gun aimed at the forehead and the camera pans upward to hide the victim as we hear a loud shot each time and after each shot, the camera cuts to a long shot of each victim, lying on one side with the head hidden behind the body and no blood flow is seen.

Violence: C Teens carrying guns; two drive - by shootings; car catches on fire; fist - fighting and kicking during two brawls with minor bleeding injuries; clawing and scratching fight between female characters; male character slaps and threatens two female characters; bloody head of dead woman.

Violence: Various scenes depict altercations between police and civilians, and many show the use of guns being shot to subdue, injure and sometimes kill assailants.

Other violence occurs from confrontations between characters, resulting in fistfight beatings and guns being used in threatening ways.

The Dark Tower (PG - 13 for action, gun violence and mature themes) Adaptation of the Stephen King sci - fi thriller about an 11 year - old adventurer (Tom Taylor) who slips into another dimension where he witnesses a showdown between an evil sorcerer (Matthew McConaughey) and a gunslinger (Idris Elba) defending the universe from extinction.

Since January 2017, nearly 200 children between the ages of six and 16 were victims of gun violence in...

But it's been hard not to notice the difference between how youth - led protests against gun violence in these two communities were received.

HEVGA statement on the lack of a relationship between video games, school shootings, and gun violence

As the cybernetically enhanced secret agent JC Denton, you have the freedom to approach problems via a wide variety of stealthy or aggressive permutations, choosing to specialize in undetected sneakery, guns - blazing violence, or anything in between.

Titled Hunter Games, the large - scale works feature renderings of figures in classical Greek contrapposto poses and touch on the links between visual culture and violence, gun control, and consumerism.

Artist Residency Finding parallels between her Homewood neighborhood and Hartford, Connecticut, particularly in terms of racism and gun violence, German will be an artist in residence as part of her MATRIX project.

Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun - control - advocacy group, analyzed FBI data on mass shootings from 2009 to 2016 and found that in 54 percent of cases, the victims included the shooter's current or former spouse or intimate partner, or another family member — and 16 percent of attackers between 2009 and 2015 had previously been charged with domestic violence.

Then you'll see less of the cases where those dealers are carrying guns or those dealers are the victims of robbery or there's competition between one another that leads to shootings and other violence,» he adds.

«To my knowledge there is no more connection between gun videos and gun violence, as a class, than there is between video games and gun violence — and when I see someone doing something stupid with a gun, much like when I see someone doing something stupid with a car, it reminds me not to do that,» Enderle said.

In between frantic text messages to family and friends, some of the students expressed their thoughts about gun violence and the change needed in the United States.

In the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, Black made a poignant observation that connected the dots between America's gun violence epidemic and toxic masculinity.

These resources included tips for talking to children about violent behavior, gun violence, and understanding the difference between mental illness and those in «extreme situational crisis.»