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SFL DRI - Gun Violence

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This working group is focused on discussions about gun violence.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about gun violence.

Members

jperodin Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com

Email address for group

sfl_dri_gun_violence@m.resiliencesystem.org

Lack of trauma care in rural American hospitals puts gunshot victims at risk

Gun violence in America is increasing, not only on crowded city streets, but in small towns in remote parts of the country that lack resources to save people from life-threatening gunshot wounds. ...

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19 Years After Columbine, Students Again Say ‘Enough’ on Gun Violence

           

At a walkout and rally in Washington Square Park on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, students called for an end to gun violence. Credit Holly Pickett for The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Sarah Maslin Nir - April 20, 2018

Most of them were not yet born when students shot a dozen people to death inside Columbine High School in Colorado, an atrocity that sparked a national debate over guns exactly 19 years ago.

But on Friday, on the anniversary of the April 20, 1999, shooting, the several thousand high school students who walked out of schools across the city and beyond to rally against guns in Manhattan said they felt they lived in a world of near-constant Columbines.

The teenagers spoke angrily of active shooter drills since kindergarten, of backpack and locker searches, of mock lockdowns sitting in silence in classrooms with the lights turned out, as they gathered in protest in Washington Square Park. And they spoke of the numbing barrage of school shootings in America — by some counts more than 200 in the past two decades.

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Two Dead, Two Wounded in Liberty City Shooting

           

Teachers remember high school student day after deadly shooting

miamiherald.com - by MONIQUE O. MADAN, GLENN GARVIN, DAVID J. NEAL AND JOEY FLECHAS - April 8, 2018

A fusillade of bullets fired by somebody who witnesses said “came through like they thought they were Rambo” felled four young men in the crime-blasted Liberty Square area of Liberty City Sunday afternoon, killing two and sending two others to the hospital.

The shootings ended the lives of Rickey Dixon, 18, and Kimson Green, 17, according to Miami police.

The four were gunned down as they sat on the lawn outside a row of one-floor apartments at Northwest 63 Street and 13th Place.

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