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  • Facts about guns and mass shootings

    Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be……

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  • Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon

    American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015 By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.com Guns and cars have long been among the lead­ing caus­es of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatal­i­ties will prob­a­bly exceed traf­fic fatal­i­ties for the first time, based on data com­piled by Bloomberg. While motor-vehicle… RT…

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  • Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

    25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…

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