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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

Mass Casualty Commission report details the Nova Scotia shooter's abuse of sex workers

Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission has released its final report on the largest mass murder in Canadian history — highlighting how the perpetrator, although known to the police, was able to escape arrest for charges of intimate partner violence and illegal gun possession.

The Conversation · Mar 30, 2023

New FBI records offer detailed insights into Las Vegas Harvest festival mass shooting

LAS VEGAS — New FBI documents reveal a more detailed account of the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman’s final days before he fatally shot 60 people and injured hundreds more on the Las Vegas Strip.

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2023

Nova Scotia's Mass Casualty Commission calls for stricter gun control laws

The final report of the Mass Casualty Commission investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that left 22 people dead makes several recommendations to meaningfully change Canada’s gun laws.

The Conversation · Mar 30, 2023

Florida OKs bill to carry concealed guns without a permit

Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill the Legislature is sending to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023

Man badly injured in case of mistaken identity

The hunt is on for a band of burglars who badly hurt an innocent man in a case of mistaken identity that's left him with physical and mental injuries.

AAP · Mar 30, 2023

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale struggled to cope with friend’s death prior to massacre

Audrey Hale was left reeling by the recent death of a friend just months before the Nashville school shooter unleashed violence and bloodshed inside the private Christian school she once attended, according to a new report.

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2023

Las Vegas mass shooter may have ‘snapped’ at casinos for treatment of high-rollers, FBI documents reveal

Shooter regularly carried $100,000 in cash, according to documents

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023