Media
CNN: America’s gun epidemic is deadlier than ever, and there are vast disparities in who’s dying
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/health/gun-deaths-disparities/index.html
Boston Globe: Massachusetts’ restrictive gun laws are working. The Supreme Court may have just upended that.
NPR’s Morning Edition: How one Oregon community reduced gun violence by 60%
JONATHAN JAY: "Community members know a lot about what this problem looks like in their neighborhood and can generate great ideas - often the best ideas."
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092522408/one-community-s-creative-strategy-to-reduce-gun-violence
TIME: Black Kids Were Already Exposed to More Gun Violence Than White Kids. The Pandemic Widened That Gap
Details a RISE Lab research paper led by Project Manager Rachel Martin:
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Black population in the United States was already more at risk than the white of being exposed to gun violence. Now, a recent study out of Boston University has revealed a disturbing trend in how that trend evolved during the last few years.
The study, which was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on March 14, shows that in the five years before the pandemic began, Black children, compared to white children, were already at a significantly higher level of risk of being exposed to firearm violence. During the pandemic, that disparity grew even wider, as gun violence across the country increased.
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BBC’s Cut Through the Noise: America’s deadly surge in gun violence
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/810052189705493/
CNN: Gun violence surging in the US since the start of the pandemic. What can be done to address it?
CBS12: Sheriffs, researcher weigh in on increase in gun violence
The Hill: How to apply COVID-19 lessons to outbreak of gun violence
By Jonathan Jay and Amber Goodwin, Opinion Contributors
Outside the headlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s long-running gun violence epidemic gained strength last year. Media coverage of mass shootings may have slowed, but the number of Americans fatally assaulted with firearms increased by 35 percent in U.S. cities. A surge of this magnitude has no modern precedent. It comprises thousands of deaths, each one a calamity for the family and community that suffer the loss. [Read more]