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This is Part 1 of our three-part Back To School series that will gather recent academic studies covering the troubling trend of firearms infiltrating school grounds. Today’s entry focuses on recent developments concerning campus carry. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
This week in Friday Finds: Annunciation Church Shooting Anniversary; GVP Strategy Successes; and more @thetrace.org @americanprogress.bsky.social @everytown.org @teachersunify.bsky.social armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin...
Most schools around the country started back this week. We recently offered this list of articles related to the increasing focus on preventing shootings on campuses. In case you missed it, here it is again, below. @teachersunify.bsky.social @k12ssdb.bsky.social
ICYMI: Back To School
As the buses rev up, here is some information from around the country on what is being done to prepare and protect kids from gun violence on campus
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After a shooting at a hometown party, Elisha McDowell brought gun safety advocacy to her HBCU. @studentsdemandaction.org #HBCU #gunviolenceawareness #CVI
GVPanorama - Interview with Co-founder of Florida A&M’s Students Demand Action
After a shooting at a hometown party, Elisha McDowell brought gun safety advocacy to her HBCU
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This week in Friday Finds: 1934 NFA Law Deemed Unconstitutional; Ghost Gun Rules Undermined; SMART Week; and more armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin... @bradyunited.org @giffords.org @everytown.org #BeSMART #smartweek @jhucgvs.bsky.social @nyamnews.bsky.social
Check out the latest Regional Wrap — A wrap-up of local gun violence prevention news and stories from across the U.S. armedwithreason.substack.com/p/regional-w...
As the buses rev up, here is some information from around the country on what is being done to prepare and protect kids from gun violence on campus. #BackToSchool #gunviolenceawareness #drones #SchoolSafety #SCOTUS @k12ssdb.bsky.social #CVI
Back To School
As the buses rev up, here is some information from around the country on what is being done to prepare and protect kids from gun violence on campus
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This week in Armed With Reason's Friday Finds: Todd Blanche Confirmation; Immediate GVP Rollbacks; and more. armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin... @giffords.org @gunsdownamerica.bsky.social @thetrace.org @everytown.org @pomurray.bsky.social
Last month, Executive Director at Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, Abbey Clements, gave us a wrap-up of various educational conferences she or her org’s ambassadors attended across the country this summer. In case you missed it, here is her report below. @teachersunify.bsky.social
ICYMI: Meeting Educators Where They Are
Teachers Unify expands their reach from summer conferences to the union floor
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With this monthly feature, we list the most up-to-date information as an easy go-to to help fight the disinformation that floods our digital age. Check out the latest Research Rewind: armedwithreason.substack.com/p/research-r...
"In this episode, we get into what network science actually is, how cities are using it to reach people at the highest risk, and why the same principles hold whether you’re looking at Boston, New Haven, Newark, or Chicago...”
GVPanorama - Using Social Networks To Reduce Gun Violence
A new podcast discussing how to use data to reduce gun violence
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This week in #FridayFinds Why Mass Shootings Persist; Dangerous ATF Reforms; and more. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
As we’ve recently highlighted the increasing influence of regional litigation on the fight for gun violence prevention, we offer this USA Today article as a quick overview of the problems recent Supreme Court decisions have had being implemented and addressing 21st century realities.
GVPanorama - Supreme Court Justice Wants to Scrap 'Failed' Second Amendment Test
The destructive problems with the "historical tradition" argument
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Every other week, we bring you the Regional Wrap to get you caught up on gun violence prevention news that might be happening right in your town. armedwithreason.substack.com/p/regional-w...
Our colleagues at @everytown.org and @giffords.org have created a new tracker to continually follow ongoing GVP-related lawsuits.
GVPanorama - Gun Industry Accountability Lawsuit Tracker
A new site to follow ongoing gun violence prevention-related lawsuits
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This week in Friday Finds: New Firearm Consumer Data; Apalachee School Shooter Sentenced; SCOTUS GVP Decisions; and more open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
"Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence ambassadors have been busy leading sessions, tabling, and hosting meet-ups at education conferences across the country this summer...." #teachers @aft.org #SafeStorage #schoolshootings #gunviolenceawareness #SchoolSafety @teachersunify.bsky.social
Meeting Educators Where They Are
Teachers Unify expands their reach from summer conferences to the union floor
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"…GVP advocates have increasingly looked to litigation as a way to enforce existing laws and help fight our gun scourge. @everytown.org represented the family in this case that involved a wrongful-death lawsuit against a ghost gun company, Husky Armory LLC."
GVPanorama - Ghost Gun Company Ordered to Pay $100M in Death of Kentucky Teen in Historic Verdict
The verdict is believed to be the largest-ever against a gun dealer
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This week in #FridayFinds Court Strikes Down NJ Assault Weapons Ban; Poverty Effects on Gun Violence; Latest Firearm Mortality Data; and more armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin...
Monday, July 20th, was the 14th anniversary of the horrific movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. To offer reflection and honor to those lost, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips — founders of the national non-profit, @survivorsempowered.bsky.social — offered this important and loving tribute.
Always Remembered, Always Honored, Always Loved
14 years after the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting
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Check out the latest Regional Wrap- A wrap-up of local gun violence prevention news and stories from across the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
This week in #FridayFinds open.substack.com/pub/armedwit... Federal Appellate Courts Uphold Assault Weapon Bans; Gun Makers Inflate Gun Prices; New Homicide Data; and more
Visit armedwithreason.substack.com for the latest in gun violence prevention research-- Research Rewind: June 2026 edition open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
While gun violence statistics have been encouraging the last few years, summer has traditionally created its own stats-proof surge. #summer #GVP #gunviolenceawareness #CVI #CrimeStatistics
The Dark Side of Summer
As shooting stats have dipped, summer brings its yearly uptick of gun violence
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July is Disability Pride Month. The theme for this year’s celebration is “The World Works Better With Us” — chosen to emphasize the fact that “when people with disabilities are included, respected, and supported, communities work better for everyone.”
Disability Pride Month
This year's theme is "The World Works Better with Us"
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In 2019, artistic producer Michael Cotey created ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence. The program produces plays about gun violence written by teens and sets up performances throughout the country each year. The program is just one example of how people are using theater to examine gun violence.
These Theater Kids Are Shifting the Narrative on Gun Violence
A national program produces plays about gun violence written by teenagers. It's just one example of how people are using theater to bring new light to the issue.
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Every other week, we bring you the Regional Wrap to get you caught up on gun violence prevention news that might be happening right in your town. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
"Gun violence is the last manifestation of every other social ill, of poverty, of lack of opportunity, lack of health care, lack of jobs, segregation, redlining…. When all those social ills come together, then the result, almost inevitably, is gun violence." @thetrace.org
GVPanorama - They Studied Nearly 14,000 People to See How Eviction Rates Are Linked to Gun Violence
Exploring the association between social capital and firearm violence
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Kristin Song is a mother, activist, attorney, and GVPedia board member. After the tragic death of her son Ethan in 2018, she and her husband Mike created the Ethan Miller Song Foundation.
ICYMI: "You Got Me to Protect Your Family"
A poem from Kristin Song
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"The central issue then is bridging the gap between the academic research and the public debate, and providing a clear and forceful response to disinformation. Pushing out facts is necessary but insufficient; inoculating the public against common myths is also essential."
ICYMI: Interview - Devin Hughes, Author of 'The Myths We Carry'
How to counter the gun lobby in the effort to shape public opinion on gun violence
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