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Its been more than a year since Indiana removed the requirement for a permit to legally carry a handgun. Some listeners were curious about how the law is impacting Hoosiers.

  Firearms have been a source of debate in the United States for decades due to the abnormally high amount of gun violence in the country. Recently, the New York Times reported guns surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, with at least 145 mass shootings in 2023, as of April 11. Utah...

In the first month of 2023, 25 people lost their lives in four mass shootings in California over just eight days. It’s a grim statistic, made all the more distr…

Doubling as a weekly liberal media pep talk, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter featured ludicrous spin from liberal Comedy Central host Jordan Klepper on gun control, complaining that the gun control viewpoint has been insufficiently covered in the media, and the NRA falsely has created a “narrative” that their opponents want to take people’s guns away.

Each congressperson who continues to oppose gun control and funding that improves social determinants of health has American blood on their hands.&nbsp&#x3B;

Answers about how to stop gun violence are finally coming to light after two decades of experts taking shots in the dark.

Congressional Democrats are pushing to authorize $50 million in research each year by the Centers for Disease Control into gun violence prevention, in the latest response to the Nashville school shooting.

Gun violence is the leading killer of kids in America, but the CDC has been prevented from researching it since 1996. That could change.

The Dickey and Tiahrt Amendments were passed in 1996 and 2003 respectively, which slashed funding for studies on gun violence by 90 percent and prohibited the CDC from supporting gun control, and prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms from disseminating information regarding the purchase history of guns used in crimes, these amendments were lobbied for by the National Rifle Association (NRA), which relied on the age-old tactic of fear-mongering to keep the public in the dark about ...

The gift will establish a center dedicated to gun violence prevention.