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Community Violence
It took a gruesome mass shooting to draw attention to the city's bordering towns, but Vanessa German has been trying to help kids in the gun violence-riddled area for years.
Q & A
Ernst Mauch talks with The Trace about the future of high-tech firearms.
Domestic Violence
Lawmakers and gun-rights advocates have called for arming abuse victims, but few battered women are mentally and emotionally prepared to pull the trigger.
Politics
Duke University professor Kristin Goss analyzes the response from both sides of the issue.
National Rifle Association
"My conscience wasn't doing well," says Jay Dickey, who adds that he never intended his budget amendment to prohibit the CDC from studying firearm deaths and injuries.
Saul Cornell is a leading authority on the evolution of U.S. firearm regulations. Here's how he views the claim that restrictions on gun rights have racist origins.
Left for dead in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, the California congresswoman revisits the episode that sparked her career-long crusade for gun reform.
"If you save someone's life from a suicide attempt," says Georgetown professor Liza Gold, "there's a very good chance that you really are permanently saving their life."
Shooters Shop sits just down the road from the notorious gun seller once known as Badger Guns. Here's how it avoids repeating its neighbor's offenses.
Lisa Moore teaches gay and lesbian studies at the University of Texas, where she is a founder of Gun-Free UT. "Shutting down dissent and free speech," she says, "is the opposite of what should happen on a college campus."
'In movies you always die quickly from a gunshot wound. But not in real life.'
Jooyoung Lee documents the very painful ways that shooting injuries transform vibrant young men.
Justin George has covered Baltimore's endless shootings from the ground. Here's what residents have told the Sun journalist could help reduce the killing.
An innovative program by epidemiologist Gary Slutkin has helped reduce violence in some urban neighborhoods by up to 70 percent.
Criminologist Tom Nolan blames poor discipline for the shooting deaths of unarmed men like Michael Brown.
