The trauma being faced by the surviving children of the Newtown school massacre is a daily reality for their mostly poor black and brown counterparts in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. That’s because gun violence is most prevalent in America’s impoverished inner-cities, where researchers say the PTSD rate could be as high as 40 […]
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By now, you’ve probably heard that there are nearly 300 million privately owned guns in the United States, almost one gun per person. As disturbing as that is, what’s even scarier is this: A minority of Americans own all of these weapons and just 20 percent are hoarding the majority of them. Following the massacre at […]
As of this writing, at least 27 people are reported to have been killed, among them 18 children following the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I don’t know about you, but I’m not just sad or horrified. I’m fucking outraged. I’m furious at policymakers for failing to enact gun control […]
Media attention devoted to the latest mass shooting in front of the Empire State building is telling when contrasted with the nonexistent coverage of gun violence ravaging America’s inner cities. The following are some of the latest examples of shootings regularly overlooked by the media and politicians alike. Last night, 19 people were shot in […]
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