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A 24-hour Stop Hate UK Helpline service is being launched in Wandsworth. The service gives people directly affected by hate crime, and witnesses to hate crime, a safe place to talk about their experiences and offers advice. Hate crime is motivated by hostility towards a person - it is usually ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be - that motivates the offender. Prejudices include a person’s perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender. Stop Hate UK is working with Wandsworth Council to introduce the helpline - in the hopes of drivi...

A 24-hour Stop Hate UK Helpline service is being launched in Wandsworth. The service gives people directly affected by hate crime, and witnesses to hate crime, a safe place to talk about their experiences and offers advice. Hate crime is motivated by hostility towards a person - it is usually ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be - that motivates the offender. Prejudices include a person’s perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender. Stop Hate UK is working with Wandsworth Council to introduce the helpline - in the hopes of drivi...

SHOW TRANSCRIPT  are again up for debate on Capitol Hill.  "But our existing gun laws are irrationally limited, loophole ridden, and inadequate," said Robyn Thomas, the executive director of the Giffords Law Center.  "These gaps make it too easy for felons, and mentally unstable people to get their hands on guns and harm others," said Sen. Dick Durbin. So what are these loopholes that currently exist in the country's background check system? Gun show and internet loopholes are two of the most frequently mentioned. Federally licensed firearms dealers are required to run buyers through a bac...

'Why does this keep happening?' Mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta expose loopholes, weaknesses in gun laws Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – Back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado underscore how loopholes and weak restrictions in gun laws enabled both suspects to get quick access to their weapons of choice in attacks that left 18 people dead. The two shootings in March thrust the issue of gun violence back into the national spotlight – and with it, calls for changes in gun requirements. Though the shootings are unrelated and o...

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado underscore how loopholes and weak restrictions in gun laws enabled both suspects to get quick access to their weapons of choice in attacks that left 18 people dead. The shootings in March have thrust the issue of gun violence back into the national spotlight – and with it, calls for changes in gun requirements. While the shootings are unrelated and on different ends of the country, they both exposed issues within current gun laws. Namely, they show that nuances in laws – or no laws at all – allow certain ...