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<\/figure>Three students <\/strong>of Palestinian descent were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, after a white man confronted the group Saturday night, shooting them at least four times, police said.Police said the gunman, who has not been identified or apprehended, shot the men \u201cwithout speaking.\u201d The victims are all 20 year old men; two of them were wearing keffiyehs…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The national outcry<\/strong>\u00a0after mass shootings always includes calls to keep guns away from dangerously troubled people. That possibility existed ahead of the devastating violence in Lewiston, Maine, as much as with any case in recent memory…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Since 2020, firearms<\/strong>\u00a0have been the\u00a0leading cause\u00a0of death for children and teens in America, killing\u00a0thousands each year. Shootings and threats of gun violence in the nation\u2019s schools have also\u00a0escalated\u00a0sharply. These trends are accompanied by another stark and evolving phenomenon: insidious marketing to kids by the gun industry…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Over the weekend,<\/strong>\u00a0a partial lie spread online.\u00a0In Missouri, on a dark night,\u00a0<\/strong>two Republican state senators brandished flamethrowers, while encircled by iPhone-wielding spectators, and\u00a0burned\u00a0empty boxes representing the \u201cleftist\u201d agenda. As the\u00a0Riverfront Times\u00a0<\/em>noted, one of the men was state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Republican who is running for governor in 2024…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n An early morning\u00a0<\/strong>shooting left nine people injured in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday.Cleveland Police\u00a0say\u00a0they responded after gunfire near the block of West 6th Street and Johnson Court\u2014a downtown intersection surrounded by clubs, bars, and a liquor store\u2014at around 2:30 a.m. They arrived to find nine people injured, according to\u00a0Cleveland 19 News.\u00a0All nine people were transported to MetroHealth Medical Center…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n For nearly 30 years,<\/strong>\u00a0federal law has banned people who have domestic violence restraining orders from possessing guns. It\u2019s a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are\u00a05 times\u00a0more likely to be killed than those whose partners don\u2019t have guns available.\u00a0About a third\u00a0of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner,\u00a0most of whom use firearms\u00a0to carry out the violence…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n One year after<\/strong>\u00a0a suicidal 18-year-old opened fire with an AR-15 rifle inside Robb Elementary School, most of the public discussion remains focused on how a swarm of law enforcement failed for more than an hour to put an end to the attack. By the time police finally went into the classroom and killed the gunman, 19 children and two teachers were dead and many other people were injured and traumatized…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The gun rampage at<\/strong>\u00a0a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday that left at least eight people dead, seven injured, and countless others traumatized is the latest in a worsening American phenomenon. The horrific event continues several trends, including some I reported on after the recent mass shootings at a school in\u00a0Nashville\u00a0and a bank in\u00a0Louisville. They center around the military-style weapons used in the attacks…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n A gunman murdered<\/strong> at least eight people on Saturday afternoon, opening fire at an outdoor mall in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The gunman was killed by a police officer on the scene.\u00a0The shooting, which is to date the second-deadliest mass-shooting of the year, happened mid-afternoon at the outlet mall where large crowds of shoppers and diners were gathered…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Tennessee\u2019s Republican lawmakers<\/strong>\u00a0ended the legislative session early on Friday without taking action on gun control, less than a month after a mass shooter at a Nashville school\u00a0killed\u00a0three adults and three 9-year-olds…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Three students of Palestinian descent were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, after a white man confronted the group Saturday night, shooting them at least four times, police said.Police said the gunman, who has not been identified or apprehended, shot the men \u201cwithout speaking.\u201d The victims are all 20 year old men; two of them were wearing… Read More »GUNS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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