Guns and Violence in America 3/3

VIDEO: US schools are taking matters into their own hands to protect their students from shootings |

Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Another school massacre last month in the United States focused attention once again on the issue of...

RADIO: Gun Violence in America is the result of the policies we make | WBUR’s Here and Now

Officials are still looking for clues of a motive behind Tuesday’s mass shooting that left at 14 people dead in San Bernardino,...

VIDEO: We are seeing mass death that’s unprecedented | KMBC News

ELI: THE PEOPLE WHO STUDY THIS KIND OF THING USE WORDS LIKE “RARE” AND “COMPLICATED .” THERE’S A LOT ABOUT THIS ONE HE JUST CANNOT FIGURE...

ARTICLE: Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri?

Missouri is poised to become the latest state to allow guns into college classrooms. The Republican-led state senate is currently...

ESSAY: Sequester This! The Perils of Masculinity and the Truth About Sex | Public Books

A review of the tell-all exposé authored by Harvard urologist Abraham Morgentaler, MD, whose new book, Why Men Fake It: The Truth About...

OP-ED: The New Science of Blaming Mothers | MSNBC

We’re back to blaming mothers in health research—or so it would seem. A number of recent epigenetic arguments drop the responsibility for...

ARTICLE: The NRA and Black People | The Grio

Last week the National Rifle Association opened a cynical new front in the debate about gun rights in America with its campaign to...

CHAPTER: Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the Politics of Schizophrenic Violence

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Metzl, JM. “Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the Politics of Schizophrenic...

OP-ED: When shootings happen, gender must be discussed | MSNBC

The male gender has all too frequently functioned as the white elephant in the room when it came to understanding mass shootings in the...

Stop blaming the mentally ill for mass shootings.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The cities read like a list of battlefields: Aurora, Tucson, Charleston, Newtown, Orlando. Each city...

OPINION-ESSAY: Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping The Mentally Ill

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Restricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that...