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The gun lobby has just enough clout to seek and find pockets of resistance to what most Americans want.

Commentary: U.S. gun culture is killing us Milo Colton, For the Express-News May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The group Moms Demand Action rally at the Capitol in April to challenge legislation allowing Texans without a handgun license to carry a concealed firearm in public. Politicians should listen.Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer Mass shootings, police shootings, suicides, accidental child shootings — it doesn’t matter. What this country needs are more guns. More guns will make us safer. At least, that’s what gun advocates tell us, and, unfortunately, that’s what too many of our ...

by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist's Resource April 13, 2021 h1 The multibillion-dollar costs of firearm injuries: Research and resources to consider /h1 p class "byline" by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist's Resource br April 13, 2021 /p p Mass shootings in the U.S. often attract national media coverage. They’re horrific, they upend the lives of numerous victims and families, and they’ve become increasingly common over the past two decades. /p p Less covered nationally, but deserving of more media attention, is the everyday toll of gun violence -- particularly injuries, which ...

Matthew T. Mangino: A promising sign in the fight against gun violence By Matthew T. Mangino Within the last week, four people, including a 9-year-old boy, were gunned down at a business complex in Orange, Calif. This was the third mass shooting in the United States in a span of several weeks. These killings come as the nation was mourning the killing of 18 others in mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia. Eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed in three Atlanta-area spas. A week later, 10 people died when a gunman opened fire at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store.