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Commentary: Our shameful national fatalism on guns

“Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023

Jackie Calmes: Big Lie No. 2 — Congress has done all it can 'on guns'

"It's a horrible, horrible situation, and we're not going to fix it."

Los Angeles Times · Mar 31, 2023

Our Liverpool: City will never forget Olivia

Welcome to Our Liverpool - the ECHO's twice-daily briefing on the day's talking points

Liverpool Echo · Mar 31, 2023

Dad regrets not advising cops before son's death

Todd McKenzie's father says if he knew what police were going to do he could have saved his mentally ill son from being gunned down by officers.

AAP · Mar 31, 2023

Olivia murder 'shows anyone involved in gun crime is a coward'

Serena Kennedy spoke to the ECHO about gun crime in Merseyside as Thomas Cashman was convicted of Olivia Pratt-Korbel's murder

Liverpool Echo · Mar 31, 2023

Data backs calls for assault weapons ban

In the years after a 1994 assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell

Salon · Mar 31, 2023

Baltimore Safe Streets sites ‘clearly’ reduce homicides, shootings, Johns Hopkins evaluation finds

BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s flagship community violence intervention program, Safe Streets, has led to reductions in nonfatal shootings and homicides, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis of nearly 15 years of data.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023

Jailed ex-elected Vegas official loses bid to get new judge

A former elected official lost his bid to get a new judge in his murder case ahead of trial scheduled in November in the slaying of a Las Vegas investigative journalist

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023

Florida death penalty requirement could soon be 8 out of 12 jury votes

Florida’s threshold for the death penalty could soon be the lowest in the nation, with the Florida Senate on Thursday passing a priority bill of Gov. Ron DeSantis to require the vote of only eight jurors out of 12 in order to implement capital punishment.

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2023

Thousands protest gun laws at Tennessee state capitol

Protesters have flooded Tennessee's statehouse to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead,

The New Daily · Mar 30, 2023