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Raising the drinking age helped reduce crashes. Could age limits curb gun violence?

With gun violence now the leading cause of death among young people, gun control advocates say there is an urgent need to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles and other long guns to 21.

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Defense asks judge to withdraw from Parkland case. She denies the motion

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland mass shooting trial became the scene of a tense standoff Monday pitting the defense, missing a critical team member due to COVID, against a Broward County judge who has grown openly tired of delays that have pushed jury selection into its third month.

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Defense asks judge to withdraw from Parkland case. Judge denies the motion

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Defense lawyers asked Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to step down from the Parkland mass shooting case Monday, hours after threatening to withdraw as counsel over an order to continue picking jurors while a key member of the defense team is home fighting COVID.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps retelling her own school ‘lockdown’ story to attack gun control advocates. What really happened?

Greene called on Hogg to discuss ‘common sense’ gun reform with her

The Independent UK

Parkland survivor David Hogg shuts down Marjorie Taylor Greene on guns: ‘Don’t have time to help you go viral’

Far-right Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene has come under fire for harassing David Hogg in the past and for pushing false claims about mass shootings

The Independent UK

Parkland survivor David Hogg urges people abroad to protest at U.S. embassies

March For Our Lives, a youth-led organization that seeks to end gun violence, is gearing up to hold a march on Saturday in the wake of a series of deadly mass shootings in the U.S.

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The tragic history of police responding too late to active shooters

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Box of loaded guns found in Florida school near 2018 Parkland shooting

Parents were not made aware of the incident until more than 24 hours had passed

The Independent UK

‘Significant’ consequences if lawmakers fail to act on gun control, Democrat warns

Senator Chris Murphy says measures passed in Florida after Parkland shooting could attract Republican support

The Guardian - US

Change in the wake of tragedy: The new safety measures planned for Florida’s schools

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — New measures to increase students’ safety are advancing in Florida, coming at a time of heightened public outcry in response to recent school tragedies.

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A teacher who was at the Parkland shooting offers advice for the Uvalde survivors

Kim Krawczyk, a teacher who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018, shares advice for the community in Uvalde, Texas, after last week's mass shooting there.

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5 ways to reduce school shootings

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, psychology professor Paul Boxer and his colleagues reviewed research to see what could be learned from what they refer to as the “science of violence prevention.” In the wake of the May 24, 2022, massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

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Robin Abcarian: Good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns? Tell that to the grieving families in Uvalde

Can we finally put to rest the dangerously wrong aphorism that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Florida reacted to school shootings. The US can, too

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators met Tuesday on Zoom to continue exploring a compromise on gun safety legislation, just as more families in Uvalde, Texas, held funerals for some of 19 children and two teachers slaughtered there at an elementary school last week. We’re not naive enough to think…

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Axios

Uvalde tragedy captures America's fleeting attention

The country isn't numb to shooting tragedies — it's overwhelmed by them.

The Guardian - UK

I hid in fear while a gunman killed 17 at my school four years ago. Why has nothing changed?

After the horrors of Texas, US politicians must introduce gun controls, says former Parkland student Dara Rosen

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‘Frustrated, angry and heartbroken’: Shevrin Jones, Charlie Crist, Parkland parents voice rage at Sunrise gun control rally

SUNRISE, Fla. — As Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones stood onstage in Sunrise, reading aloud the names of 31 victims gunned down May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he burst into tears. He blamed the influence of gun…

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Obsession with guns. Dysfunctional families. Many parallels exist between Parkland and Uvalde shooters

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A young man with a troubled home life, who felt bullied at school and developed an obsession with guns, easily walked onto a school campus where he murdered students and staff with a legally purchased AR-15 style rifle.

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'Please send the police now': Urgent pleas don’t always mean the cops rush in. Just look at Parkland and Uvalde

Move toward the gunfire and take out the shooter.

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"It might happen again": Uvalde's kid survivors tell their stories

"It's messed up that these kids have to go on CNN, or MSNBC, or whatever it is, and talk about death."

The Conversation

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

The Independent UK

Sandy Hook and Parkland families react to Texas shooting as father shares pain outside Florida court

‘They f*****g failed our kids again, okay? I’m done. I’ve had it. You know, how many more times?’

The Independent UK

Texas school shooting invades trial of Parkland murderer

The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school have invaded jury selection at the penalty trial of Florida’s campus killer

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‘I’m in physical pain with what they’re going through.’ Parkland father reacts to Texas massacre

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Parkland families have become spokespeople for a cause they didn’t sign up for.

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Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share their outrage over Uvalde tragedy

Both survivors share their criticism of how, even years after shootings at their schools, no changes have been made to address mass gun violence in America.

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