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The Trace @thetrace.org · 18/05/2026
Law enforcement responded to an active-shooter situation at the Islamic Center of San Diego this afternoon. At least one member of the mosque was killed, per the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Police said the threat was “neutralized.”
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Live updates: Two suspects dead in shooting at San Diego mosque, sources say
The San Diego Police are responding to reports of an active shooter near a Clairemont Mosque.
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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Domestic shootings in Louisiana and Virginia have seized the nation's attention. But murder-suicide happens more often than you may think. There are an average of 1.5 gun-related murder-suicides a day, according to Gun Violence Archive — and the majority stem from intimate partner violence.
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Devastating Shootings in Louisiana and Virginia Follow This Pattern. It’s More Common Than You Know
An Army veteran and a former politician took the lives of their loved ones before killing themselves. A new analysis by The Trace shows how often murder-suicides occur.
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Brian Freskos @brianfreskos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Trace senior news writer @jenmascia.bsky.social analyzed all of Trump's pardons and found that he forgave $113 million in fines and penalties that would have gone to help victims of violent crime
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Trump’s Pardons Are Costing Shooting Survivors Millions
A Trace analysis found that revenue once generated by fining white-collar criminals is drying up — now that the president has pardoned so many of them.
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The recent murder-suicides in Louisiana and Virginia highlight an all too American problem. My colleague @jenmascia.bsky.social analyzed how often it's happening in an eye opening story. www.thetrace.org/2026/04/murd...
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Devastating Shootings in Louisiana and Virginia Follow This Pattern. It’s More Common Than You Know
An Army veteran and a former politician took the lives of their loved ones before killing themselves. A new analysis by The Trace shows how often murder-suicides occur.
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Brian Freskos @brianfreskos.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our staff writer @bychipbrownlee.com writes an excellent newsletter about potential solutions to gun violence. Today's installment covers a new effort to bring together opposing sides of the gun debate to draft model legislation:
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‘Bridging the Divide’ on Firearms Laws
A new project brought together people from opposing sides of the gun debate to craft model legislation for violence prevention.
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Maduro hasn’t set foot in the United States in decades. How can he be charged with violating an American gun law? My colleague @jenmascia.bsky.social spoke to legal experts who broke down the charges. www.thetrace.org/2026/01/madu...
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Maduro Has Been Charged With Machine Gun Possession. Here’s Why
Prosecutors allege that the deposed Venezuelan president broke an American gun law despite not having stepped foot on U.S. soil in decades.
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Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com · 09/01/2026
Including yesterday's shooting of two people in Portland, The Trace has identified 44 incidents of use of force by federal immigration agents since January 2025. That includes 16 shootings, 4 of which were fatal. Seven other people have been wounded. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A new era: More young people have lived through more than one mass shooting. Terrific reporting by @almabeauvais.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/12/mult...
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Young People Are More Likely to Have Encountered a Mass Shooting — And Another After That
The Brown University shooting underscored that a growing number of young people have been forced to endure more than one traumatic shooting.
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
ChatGPT has a long way to go. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/scho...
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ChatGPT Might Have a School Shooting Problem
A researcher was able to coax AI to provide pointers for a hypothetical "Nerf ambush" that could easily be translated into instructions for a school mass shooting.
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.
Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations, according to a new KFF analysis. This puts the U.S. far ahead of peer nations in child and teen firearm deaths.

Data show that U.S. firearm deaths for children and teens again surpassed motor vehicle deaths – the second leading cause of death – and that the increase has been primarily driven by gun assault deaths.

On a per capita basis, the firearm mortality rate among children and teens in the U.S. is over 9.5 times the rate of Canada, the country with the second-highest child and teen firearm death rate. If firearm deaths in the U.S. had mirrored Canada’s rates between 2010 and 2021, approximately 30,000 U.S. children and teenagers would still be alive.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 12/09/2025
School swatting incidents have accelerated in recent years. Experts say these hoaxes can traumatize students and first responders. thetr.ac/EryMr
“You have all the kids who are texting their parents. You have parents who think they’re not gonna see their kids later. And that’s incredibly traumatizing. And you don’t know what kind of trauma that community experienced before that moment.”
— Jaclyn Schildkraut, a school safety expert who directs a gun violence research group at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, on the psychological damage of school “swatting” incidents
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Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com · 12/09/2025
There's a lot of speculation about the motive of the man who killed Charlie Kirk. Regardless of what we learn, this assassination is an accelerant on an already burning fire. "The question is how high it’s gonna burn and how much destruction it’s gonna do," @jeffsharlet.bsky.social tells me.
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Narratives About the Killing of Charlie Kirk May Be More Powerful Than the Facts
Jeff Sharlet, the author of ‘The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,’ talked to The Trace about making sense of this tense moment.
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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Political violence like the Charlie Kirk assassination accelerates our march toward civil unrest — but it's not to late to stop it, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social tells my colleague @bychipbrownlee.com
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Narratives About the Killing of Charlie Kirk May Be More Powerful Than the Facts
Jeff Sharlet, the author of ‘The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,’ talked to The Trace about making sense of this tense moment.
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Alma Beauvais @almabeauvais.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Multiple sites around the country are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled funding for the Firearms Technical Assistance Project, a program that brings together community organizations to tackle the dangers posed by guns in domestic abuse situations. www.thetrace.org/2025/09/trum...
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When Domestic Violence Grant Funding Is Lost, What’s Plan B?
DEK: Multiple sites are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled a program designed to help tackle the dangers posed by guns in domestic abuse situations.
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Will Van Sant @vansant.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Rita Oceguera keeps a spotlight on disinfo for @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/chic...
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Trump Says Chicago Is Crime-Ridden. But Shootings Are Down 50 Percent Since His First Term.
Chicagoans interviewed by The Trace say they’ve been feeling safer in their neighborhoods — and do not want intervention from ICE or the National Guard.
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Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
From a prescient 2024 opinion piece in @thetrace.org : "To counter the ideology that drives political violence, we must refrain from normalizing the permission structure that condones it. ... Political leaders bear a significant responsibility." www.thetrace.org/2024/08/trum...
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A Call to Protect Democracy From Political Violence
Experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions consider what led to the current climate — and how we can change it.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 10/09/2025
Cleaner neighborhoods and green spaces point to a decline in crime. Could it help Philadelphia?
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Bulletin: Could Cleanup Initiatives in Philadelphia Help Reduce the City's Gun Violence?
Cleaner neighborhoods and green spaces point to a decline in crime.
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Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@jenmascia.bsky.social found there were at least 22 swatting hoaxes at American colleges just between the last week of August and early September. "Most of the calls involved an armed person in the library. Some featured gunshots in the background." www.thetrace.org/2025/09/swat... #tellewa
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More Than 20 Active Shooting Hoaxes Have Locked Down Colleges Over the Past Two Weeks
Experts said swatting incidents can traumatize students and first responders.
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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We have updated the Gun Violence Data Hub's page featuring data on mass shootings. This data comes from the Gun Violence Archive, and uses their definition of "a minimum of four victims shot." You can find more information and download the data at this link datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/mass...
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Mass Shootings
Data on mass shootings in the United States, from the Gun Violence Archive.
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Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
From a @thetrace.org Q&A with a Yale policing expert: "If we were talking about a city and a state, the National Guard wouldn’t be able to exercise general police powers like making arrests or investigating crimes. Washington poses a very different issue." www.thetrace.org/2025/08/trum...
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Legal Constraints Could Stymie Trump’s Plans to Police Other Cities
We spoke with a policing expert from Yale Law School about whether a federal takeover could come to New York or Chicago.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 27/08/2025
Full story here:
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Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, the Gun Industry’s Own Research Reveals
The gun industry is pushing Congress to loosen restrictions on carrying, even though routine carrying makes even its customers feel less safe.
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Some helpful historical context from my colleagues @jenmascia.bsky.social and @bychipbrownlee.com on how we got here www.thetrace.org/2024/04/colu...
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The Armed Era
You drop your child off at kindergarten where they learn how to hide from an active shooter. You spot a rifle-strapped shopper in the cereal aisle at the supermarket. You stuff your belongings in a cl...
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mikespies.bsky.social @mikespies.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In light of today’s shooting in Minnesota, here’s a relevant bit from the gun industry’s own research, which I obtained earlier this summer
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Will Van Sant @vansant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In a Q&A with a law and policing expert, @jenmascia.bsky.social explores limits to further crackdowns in Democratic cities that have opposed Trump. www.thetrace.org/2025/08/trum...
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Legal Constraints Could Stymie Trump’s Plans to Police Other Cities
We spoke with a policing expert from Yale Law School about whether a federal takeover could come to New York or Chicago.
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
An inside look from @vansant.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/08/marc...
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They Rallied the Nation After the Parkland School Shooting. Years Later, Their Group Is Floundering.
The gun reform group has been rocked by divisions, layoffs, and — most recently — a lawsuit alleging racism and retaliation.
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Brian Freskos @brianfreskos.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
More CDC cuts could wipe out one of the most reliable sources of gun violence data. To show what’s at stake as Congress moves to enact the agency’s next budget, @thetrace.org compiled 10 examples of how the CDC’s gun violence work has helped reveal trends, shape interventions, and inform policy.
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CDC Data Is Helping Combat Gun Violence. But It’s at Risk of Disappearing.
As the Trump administration pushes deep cuts to the CDC, we’ve compiled 10 examples of how the agency’s gun violence work has shaped policy and prevention.
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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Claim: Washington D.C. hasn't had a murder since Trump sent in the troops on August 11. Fact: There was a murder on August 13. No murders since then — but there have been 7 shootings. A total of 8 people were wounded www.gunviolencearchive.org/query/3378d4...
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Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"The ongoing dispute exposed a foundational fracture in the city’s community violence intervention efforts. … That structural shift, according to several local activists, marked the beginning of a more top-down, enforcement-driven approach."
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Samantha Storey @samanthastorey.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The latest from @josiahbates.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/08/minn...
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'It's a Bully Tactic': Minneapolis Violence Interrupters Stand Off With the City
At the height of the racial justice protests in 2020, the Rev. Jerry McAfee was on the front lines in Minneapolis. When residents filled the streets after George Floyd’s murder, McAfee and other veter...
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Brian Freskos @brianfreskos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In the 1990s, John Jay professor David Kennedy pioneered a groundbreaking violence prevention strategy. @bychipbrownlee.com spoke to him about Trump's strategy to reduce crime in D.C. and what a more effective approach might look like.
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What Would a More Effective Policing Strategy Look Like in D.C.?
We spoke with crime prevention expert David Kennedy about the Trump administration’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
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Will Van Sant @vansant.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
March for Our Lives, an important youth mobilizer, has hit hard times. Quite hard. Details in my latest story: www.thetrace.org/2025/08/marc...
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They Rallied the Nation After the Parkland School Shooting. Years Later, Their Group Is Floundering.
The gun reform group has been rocked by divisions, layoffs, and — most recently — a lawsuit alleging racism and retaliation.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/08/2025
As a former homepage and engagement editor for NPR, I found @joshuabenton.com's latest Nieman Lab piece from their rankings of media (first local newspapers, then nonprofit news sites) takes a look at the top 25 local public media sites very insightful about the challenges ahead.
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These public radio stations have built online audiences that’ll help them survive federal cuts
They may have been born on the airwaves, but these public media stations compete on the web as well. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local public media websites in the United States.
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Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com · 19/08/2025
I spoke with crime prevention expert David Kennedy about the Trump administration’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital, and the tactics that might prove more effective.
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What Would a More Effective Policing Strategy Look Like in D.C.?
We spoke with crime prevention expert David Kennedy about the Trump administration’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As students head back to school in Chicago, many will be exposed to gun violence. @thetrace.org's Gun Violence Data Hub collaborated with @wgntv.com to track the alarming number of shootings near schools wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
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Craig Hunter @chunterct.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Trump claimed the nation’s capital has been “taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals.” But crime in D.C. and other cities he's targeted is not out of control — in fact, it’s decreasing. Below, we fact-check his claims.
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The Data Doesn’t Support Trump’s Justification for Deploying the National Guard
Trump has taken over policing in D.C. and threatened to do the same in other cities. A Trace analysis shows that his claims of runaway violence are false.
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George LeVines @g3org3.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is the kind of story we can help your newsroom produce! Reach out via our help desk to get the ball rolling: datahub.thetrace.org/help-desk/
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