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Daughter of Sandy Hook Victim Partners With South Jersey Mental Health Nonprofit

Mary Joy Sherlach lived for the kids. A school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Mary did what her daughter Maura Schwartz […]

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A Columbine Anniversary Threat Was Scrawled in a Bathroom at Temple

The FBI and the Philadelphia Police have been alerted to a threatening message written in a bathroom stall of an academic building at Temple. Here’s […]

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Found in Adam Lanza’s Home: Over 1,700 Rounds of Ammunition

In the days after the Newtown massacre in Connecticut, investigators found an astonishing trove of gun-related paraphernalia in shooter Adam Lanza’s home. A very small […]

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PA Gun Background Checks Have Tripled Since Sandy Hook

Since the Sandy Hook shooting, background checks on firearm sales have nearly tripled in Pennsylvania. Though the state’s background check process has recently improved, this […]

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Gun-Rights Advocates Heckle Father of Murdered Sandy Hook Boy

Sometimes it’s just a good idea to shut the hell up. For gun advocates, that time would’ve been, say, Monday at the Connecticut Legislature, where […]

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Protests Force Postponement of Harrisburg Gun Show

A casualty of the post-Sandy Hook culture war: The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, planned to start Feb. 2 in Harrisburg, has been delayed in […]

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President Obama’s Gun Agenda is Too Big

President Obama this week chose to do Something Big about guns. But he should’ve started small. He should’ve started with the bad guys. He should’ve […]

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New York’s New Gun Law Conflates Violence, Mental Illness

Huzzah and hallelujah, that’s what I should be saying in response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tough gun control law that he signed with […]

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Joe Biden’s Choice: Crack Down on Fake Guns, Or Real?

Real guns are great. It’s the fake guns—the ones you see on TV, on film, and in video games—that pose the real danger to our […]