Metal detectors, bulletproof chalkboards, pepper-ball-spraying drones — in our desperation to protect children, we’re turning our schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are now leading a nation...

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A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Everytown has launched a Request for Proposals for a new grant program for scholars in the gun violence prevention research field.

Compares gun policy across 50 states. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun laws, fewer people die by gun violence.

Each day, as the final school bell rings and children stream out of buildings, their risk of gun injury spikes dramatically. This alarming reality was spotlighted in a new Boston University School …

“They don't have to be alone with those thoughts or those fears in the aftermath,” said Kiki Leyba, who was teaching at Columbine High School during the 1999 mass shooting.

This post is grounded in a recent open-access article in the American Journal of Public Health titled “Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril: Protecting Our Progress in Public Health.” The article…

Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.

Firearms injuries are the leading cause of death among children in the United States.1 Most child firearm injuries arise from interpersonal assaults, not accidents or self-harm. Firearm violence surge...

As school shootings have grown more frequent, so too have active shooter drills, becoming routine in 95 percent of American schools

In schools across the United States, active shooter drills have been common for years and yet we don’t know all that we could about the effect of such drills on students and educators. On this episode...

Arming Teachers Can Heighten Risks of Unintentional Shootings, Escalate Violence, and Deepen Classroom Inequities with No Evidence of Protective Benefits, According to New Report Case Studies in Iowa,...

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States with strong gun control laws had three times fewer incidents of domestic violence homicide-suicide, according to a report shared exclusively with The 19th.

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