Stray Bullets Struck Over 300 Innocents in U.S. Within 1 Year, Study Finds
More than 300 people in the United States were struck by stray bullets between March 2008 and February 2009, often from shootings unconnected to the victims, according to a new study by researchers...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Collectively We, As a Nation, Can Reduce Gun Violence
Last Friday 20 children aged six and seven were systematically executed by a young man, who has been politely defined as suffering from a personality disorder, but who in another time would simply have...
View ArticleUPDATED: A Nation Divided on Guns: Parents and Experts Weigh in on NRA...
Update: The Illinois Senate could get a bill Thursday for a floor vote on whether to ban assault weapons, and accompanying ammunition, after a legislative panel – the Senate Public Health Committee –...
View ArticleWhite House Taps Juvenile Justice Experts on Gun Violence
Representatives from a group of more than 300 juvenile justice and delinquency prevention organizations at the national, state and local level have met with White House staff and Congressional minority...
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Obama Comes Home to Give Hope, Perspective in Violence-Stained Chicago
President Barack Obama talked about education reform, economic inequality and gun violence in Chicago on Friday, adapting main points from his State of the Union speech earlier this week to address...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Chicago Violence is Bad – Very – But Gun Problem is Bigger than One City
Let’s get this straight: Chicago, despite getting the rap as the nation’s gun-murder capital, is not near the top of the pack of U.S. cities with the highest firearm homicides per capita. Still, it...
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Can Rahm Beat Back Pro-Gun Lobby and Federal Rulings to Keep Firearms Out of...
Unless City Hall comes up with a new – and legally sound – gun ordinance within six months, Chicago could have local gun shops opening all across the city. A federal judge has ruled the city was going...
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Shootings Involving Minors Drop 40 Percent in 2013
Hadiya Pendleton Over the past year, shooting incidents involving minors age 16 and younger have decreased 40 percent from the rate of gun-related violence in 2012. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police...
View ArticleEleven Killed Over Holiday Weekend; Are Gun Laws to Blame?
As Chicago tries to make sense of a deadly Fourth of July weekend that, according to some estimates, saw 82 people shot in an 84-hour period, police turned the dialogue to Chicago’s gun laws and...
View ArticleAnnual South Side Parade Marches On, Despite Shooting
After two hours of parading through the Chicago heat, it was finally time for Leon Holton to call for one more performance. It was early in the afternoon when he spun around toward his group, their...
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