Dr. Eugenia South, keynote speaker at URMC on Thursday, said that root causes of urban gun violence are a lack of simple investment in low-income neighborhoods.
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RCSD superintendent on crime wave: ‘This has to stop’
RCSD Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small released an anguished video message Wednesday begging for an end to violence in the city.
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Groups take aim at Project Exile
Civil liberties and criminal justice reform groups are calling on Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley to pull out of a federal program that has some local gun cases turned over to federal prosecutors. Federal charges for gun crimes carry harsher sentences than state charges. Representatives of three groups – Enough is Enough, Citizen Action […]
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‘Move’ documentary explores individual, citywide impact of gun violence
The new locally-produced documentary “Move” from first-time filmmaker Tam Little chronicles the 2015 shooting at the Rochester Boys & Girls Club, and seeks to spur viewers to take action.
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The nation under Trump
Guns, climate change, war: the facts are available. But for much of the American public, truth is what we want it to be.
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Las Vegas, guns, and the evil of inaction
We knew what we needed to do when we saw the pictures of the children murdered in Newtown. And nothing happened.
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Feedback 4/26
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Trump’s fact-free nation and democracy’s future
To some Americans, facts don’t matter. And the president is turning the public’s distrust of the media into a personal weapon.
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Feedback 7/6
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COMMENTARY: Too much firepower, not enough reason
In practically every discussion of gun violence, some Second Amendment type inevitably invokes the old, cringe-worthy cliche: Guns don’t kill people, people do. So let’s re-frame what happened last weekend in Orlando. A person — one who pledged allegiance to ISIS — murdered 49 people and injured more than 50 others in an atrocious act […]
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Feedback 10/21
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Nibbling around the edges of gun violence
Gun violence is a devastating, complicated problem. Federal lawmakers have so far been unwilling to pass comprehensive gun-control legislation, so in that absence, local, state, and federal officials continue with piecemeal efforts to fight gun violence. For example, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sponsors a bill that would make gun trafficking a federal crime. Guns are […]
