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Waking Up to Another (Preventable) Tragedy

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Restrictive Gun Control Policies Lower Youth Gun Carrying

September 21, 2015
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“A Safer Place to Call Home”—Gun Control in Situations of Domestic Violence

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Higher Gun Ownership Rates Linked to Increase in Non-Stranger Homicide

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Link Between Rates of Gun Ownership and Homicides

September 11, 2013

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