Teachers Say They’re Struggling With the Reality of Guns In Schools
When a minor earthquake struck the East Coast last week, second-grade teacher Abbey Clements saw the fearful look in her students’ eyes, “searching for answers and safety in me.” It was a look she and...
View ArticleMost Veterans Own a Gun — and Many Keep It Loaded
More than half of military veterans with access to firearms store them unsafely, and nearly 40 percent store their guns loaded, according to a new study published this month. Led by researchers at...
View ArticleRichmond, Virginia, Is the Latest City to Try a Youth Curfew to Reduce Gun...
Featured Story Amid a surge in gun violence, city leaders in Richmond, Virginia, announced that they are enforcing an 11 p.m. curfew for minors, an initiative they’ve dubbed “Operation Safe Summer.”...
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Losing Her Daughter to Gunfire Left Her Inconsolable. A Trauma Recovery...
This March, Alexis Jackson worked tirelessly to make sure all the details of her oldest daughter’s Sweet 16 were perfect: a heart-shaped cake in Abe’bre’anna’s favorite color, purple; a glittering...
View ArticleIn a Decade, Firearm Deaths Among Young Black People in Rural America Have...
For decades, the narrative of gun violence and homicide has been framed as an urban plight disproportionately affecting Black communities in densely populated Northeastern and Midwestern cities. But a...
View ArticleCould a Holistic Approach to Gun Violence Reporting Help Victims?
In the fall of 2022, when I first started working at The Trace, I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Health Care Journalists’ summit on reporting on violence as a public health issue....
View Article‘This Is Our Lane’: Health Experts to Lead First-Of-Its-Kind Anti-Violence...
Brady United, a national gun violence prevention group, announced today the launch of its first national advisory council, whose goal is to address gun violence through a public health lens by placing...
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Gun Violence Prevention Services Can’t Reach Everyone. Telehealth Could Help.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chuka Emezue watched as a few men in the domestic violence intervention program he directed struggled to stay awake or were distracted in remote video calls....
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Arkansas’s Many Shooting Victims Share a Single Trauma Center. This...
When Nakita Lovelady matriculated to the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, her evenings were spent studying by the dim light in her Little Rock apartment, where she scribbled down notes,...
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In 2019, Congress Finally Funded Gun Violence Research. Here’s How It’s...
In the mid-2010s, as a series of mass shootings set new records for lethality and turned the public’s attention toward America’s gun violence epidemic, the same question was raised again and again:...
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