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Mass Shooting
Two weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, coverage of it had all but vanished from six major cable news networks, an analysis by The Trace of data collected by the Television News Archive found. The…
Data
Mass-casualty shootings are happening with greater frequency, and with higher death counts. Less than 16 months after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, set a terrible new benchmark for carnage, a gunman firing from his Las Vegas…
Law
Rates of intimate-partner homicide are lower in states that require people served with domestic-violence restraining orders to surrender their guns, a study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes. The study, from researchers at five different…
