Sentences with phrase «of gun violence»

If we want to have a significant impact on the epidemic of gun violence in this country then we must be willing to address the problem at its core.

Many of the cases involving victims of gun violence involve reluctant witnesses.

Serious mental illness is the primary cause of gun violence.

When it becomes more difficult for people coming out of school to find jobs, the rate of gun violence at schools increases.

We must also look at the root problem of gun violence when it begins in our schools.

He is a seasoned legislator with a long history of advocacy for election reform, public schools, affordable housing and the environment and the prevention of gun violence.

We need to address the true threat of gun violence in this country and the easy availability of guns.

The research team also found the rate of gun violence at schools has changed over time.

What initiatives can educators implement in their own classrooms to help empower students and reduce fears of gun violence?

What you've really got here is powerful lobbyists looking to shift the blame of gun violence from guns to video games.

Were deeply concerned with the increasing amount of gun violence in our schools and communities, the bank said.

This is about what happens everyday in our country where tens of thousands for people die every year because of gun violence.

And finally, conducting further research into the nexus of gun violence, violence in mass media and mental illness.

They put a spotlight not just on mass shootings, but also more common types of gun violence that are less likely to make national front pages.

That school shootings do not account for the majority of gun violence affecting young people only adds to this debate.

«We believe we need to see the end of gun violence,» she said.

May 12, 2018 • Despite a federal ban on funding the study of gun violence, researchers have published hundreds of studies in recent years exploring risk factors and solutions to the problem.

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

We are not only doing this for the 17 students and faculty murdered but also for the youth whose innocence has yet to be shattered by the pervasive terror of gun violence.

In the background of the politics of gun violence & gun rights: roughly a 25 - point decline in the rate of gun ownership across generations.

But why do we see the victims of gun violence so much more clearly than the victims of criminal violence more generally?

These may be children who have watched news programs about school shootings, or have personal experience or knowledge of gun violence.

Enough with the mass shootings, enough of the gun violence.

The divide between the tens of thousands of gun violence deaths each year & lack of any effort to protect us from guns grows wider.

Also, the definition of gun violence at school varied among creators of these datasets.

The film is too standard for its own good, and there are viewers who will definitely feel uncomfortable with its depiction of gun violence given current events in the country.

We All We Got documents the tragic aftermath of youth violence, using images and essays to confront the topic of gun violence in powerful and unforgettable ways.

«It happens so often in our neighborhoods,» she said of gun violence.

To get the change we need, to bring about sensible gun regulations, we need to recognize the widespread devastation of gun violence and come together collectively and organize to resolve it.

As well as participating artists, family members of victims of gun violence.

The massacre inspired student survivors to launch a movement in hopes of convincing lawmakers to address the issue of gun violence and, in particular, school shootings.

The agreement also contains language enabling agencies to move forward with research on the causes of gun violence.

Participants stress that they are talking about more than just mass shootings, because the problem of gun violence is far more widespread and complex.

I wonder if this will be enough to ease student's fears of gun violence.

I'm far more concerned about the drug addicted babies born in my city or the incredible amount of gun violence and the lack of access to decent childcare for low income families.

I say to our lawmakers: If you can't do something about this disgraceful scourge of gun violence in our schools and across our country, you should not hold public office.

And it's true that the city has fairly high levels of gun violence (although also not the worst in the US).

Pennridge High School students turn a Saturday detention into a day of protest, linking arms and pinning the names of victims of gun violence on their clothing.

Solutions to the epidemic of gun violence from parts of the political right include increasingly arming public places (a gun in every classroom) in order to prevent that very same gun violence: a kind of domestic arms race.

A different GoFundMe bid was launched June 11 to raise $ 4,000 for the family of singer Christina Grimmie, who was shot and killed in a separate incident of gun violence in Orlando on Saturday.

Although the march was organized in response to the shooting at Stoneman Douglas, victims of other acts of gun violence were represented.

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Research on any kind of gun violence gets little federal funding (SN Online: 3/9/18; SN: 5/14/16, p. 16).

Survivors of gun violence spoke at the rally, telling their stories of hiding in classrooms, of hearing the pop - pop of gunfire in their neighborhoods.

We were saddened to learn of the passing of a young man and the injury of two others as a result of gun violence at our store on North Broadway in Chicago.

«Instead, we should be addressing the root causes of gun violence by reducing the number of guns on our streets, limiting access to these deadly weapons and increasing mental health services to ensure the kind of healthy environment that will allow kids to grow and thrive.

Three years after she was shot at a Tucson supermarket, the former Arizona congresswoman has become a major force in the effort to end the plague of gun violence.