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Teen shot after knocking on wrong door

16-year-old Ralph Yarl reportedly went to pick up his little brothers but accidentally went to the wrong house

Salon · Apr 17, 2023

Heidi Stevens: It's not tampons. Or drag queens. Or Renaissance art. It's guns. And they're laying waste to our children

It’s not tampons, which Idaho Republicans labeled “woke” and blocked from being funded for school bathrooms.

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2023

Tennessee lawmaker defends 2021 Christmas card of children brandishing guns in wake of Nashville shooting

Andy Ogles represents Tenessee’s 5th congressional district, where the shooting took place

The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2023

Heidi Stevens: 'We don’t have to live this way and our children shouldn’t die this way.' Sorrow, reckoning in the wake of yet another mass shooting

Brenda Mitchell’s son, Kenneth, was shot and killed trying to break up a fight outside a Matteson, Illinois, bar in 2005.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2023

Court blocks domestic violence gun ban

"The 5th Circuit's decision is going to lead to more abusers murdering their wives," said one gun control advocate

Salon · Feb 3, 2023

Domestic abusers have gun rights too, US appeals court rules

The decades-old U.S. law barring Americans who commit domestic-violence from possessing guns contradicts the nation’s “historical tradition” of access to firearms even for people who aren’t “model citizens,” a federal appeals court ruled.

Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2023

Newspaper deletes glowing obituary of Utah man accused of killing his family

Obit made no mention that Michael Haight shot his estranged wife, their five children and his mother-in-law before killing himself

The Guardian - US · Jan 18, 2023

Fawning obituary for Utah father who killed his family of 7 is removed by newspaper after widespread outrage

The 42-year-old was remembered as a parent who ‘cherished’ the children he allegedly shot dead

The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2023

‘It’s the guns’: violent week in a deadly year prompts familiar US responses

Thanksgiving week has seen 22 people killed and 44 injured by guns, as 2022 is shaping up to be one of the worst years in recent memory

The Guardian - US · Nov 23, 2022

Tribune News Service column correction

EDITORS: The column MALL-SHOOTER-COUNTERPOINT:MCT (Edwards), which moved last week via Tribune News Service, has now moved with a correction. The column should not have stated that Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts called for Indiana mall shooter Elisjsha Dicken to be arrested.

Tribune News Service · Aug 24, 2022