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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 40 percent of highschoolers had depressive symptoms in 2023. It also reported increases in bullying and threats involving weapons.
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. [1] [2] Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, but have strong firearms laws to prevent violence.
Ivette Cortes of Deerfield, Ill., participates in a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, to call for stronger gun control measures including universal background checks and an ...
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) was a United States non-profit organization and super PAC that supports gun control. [2] [3] The group's stated goal was "to encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership." [4] It typically supported Democratic politicians in ...
As of July 5, as many as 21,932 people have died from gun violence in 2023 according to the Gun Violence Archive. At this rate, it would mean 2023 would have fewer gun violence deaths than both ...
In 2016, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence merged with Americans for Responsible Solutions, a nonprofit gun safety organization led by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut Captain Mark Kelly. The organization changed its name to GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in 2017. [7]
Yet the solutions proposed by elected officials differed along partisan lines. Most Democrats consider guns a primary threat to safety. They cite thousands of gun deaths and injuries as evidence ...
The Firearms Policy Coalition is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.Its legal team, FPC Law, bills itself as, "...the nation's first and largest public interest legal team focused on the right to keep and bear arms," and states that "the primary objective of our legal action programs is to bring cases that protect your rights and property, restore individual liberty, and help us achieve our ...