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Coronavirus could make America’s gun problem even deadlier

June 11, 2020

“We studied 26 million Americans over 12 years. Here’s what we learned about gun ownership.” Continue reading

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The hidden cost of COVID shutdowns

May 04, 2020

“Some leaders are calling for an end to stay-at-home orders to save the economy, while public health experts argue this will result in a surge of COVID deaths. The implication is that we have to choose between a financial crisis and a public health crisis, and that lives are more important than money. But economic crises are public health crises.

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The killer in your closet

April 21, 2020

“Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has people around the world feeling vulnerable and scared. In America, individualism and firearm culture have generated a unique response to this threat: stockpiling firearms and ammunition.1

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Should Trump be put on a mental health hold?

January 06, 2020

“A few days ago, Salon published an interview with psychiatrist Bandy Lee, who argued that Nancy Pelosi should put President Trump on an involuntary 72-hour mental health hold after he ordered a drone strike in Iraq. While there are plenty of reasons to see Trump’s presidency as a problem, this is the wrong approach to solving it.

Protection-order legislation would protect Minnesotans from shootings

June 02, 2019

“People who knew him as a child described him as “odd” and, later, “disturbed.” Only after it happened did they use the word “scary.” As a teenager, he was picked on and teased for his sullen demeanor and his love of military gear. He lashed out, fighting with classmates and destroying property...” Continue reading

Firearm Policies and Programs

The empty promise of suicide prevention

April 26, 2019

“Many of the problems that lead people to kill themselves cannot be fixed with a little extra serotonin...” Continue reading

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Parenting in the age of school shootings

April 19, 2019

“The police picked him up from his high school after a terrified student told her principal he had threatened to slit her throat. She showed them his Instagram, where he had posted pictures of the Charleston Church shooter with the word “hero” underneath it, and a picture of their science lab with the caption “Columbine 2.0”.

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The secret to being a better caregiver

January 26, 2019

“Before I went to medical school, I had a seemingly unrelated job as a backcountry mountaineering instructor for Outward Bound. At the beginning of each season, I’d sublet my apartment, freeze my credit cards, breakup with my boyfriend, and drive my truck out to Colorado. I’d spend the summer traveling on foot through the high mountain passes and rough-hewn peaks of the Rocky Mountains, carrying everything I needed on my back. I slept in meadows under the stars, drank from streams, and wore the same socks for 3 weeks at a time.

Court restores gun rights to violent, delusional man

December 07, 2018

“J.P. had begun to believe that the mafia was monitoring him and that they had deployed operatives to follow him to Oregon when he moved from California. He thought a tracking chip had been implanted in his neck, that robotic birds were conducting surveillance on him, and that he was being watched through his cell phone, which he destroyed in a fit of rage.

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Viewpoints - This is how to stop mass shootings

November 12, 2018

“Yes, again.

In another it-can't-happen-here community, a young man has taken the lives of many others, and then his own...” Continue reading

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