Blood of My Brother: A Call to End Gun Worship

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• Is today the day we say enough? I doubt it.

  

  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  

  Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

  CNN - Dakin Andone

  CNN — Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen were injured in a mass shooting at an El Paso shopping center on Saturday, according to Texas and local authorities. “Lives were taken who should still be with us today,” Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference near the Walmart and an …

• Good editorial on a bad policy decision to block research on gun violence http://www.dailyastorian.com/editorials/20160328/editorial-gun-violence-epidemic-is-a-public-health-concern#.VvkPlmijh-M.flipboard

  

  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  Mar 28, 2016

• We can speculate that gun violence research may help to identify factors that increase the risk of violence and be proven wrong. However, not doing research guarantees we only speculate without the evidence needed to make sound policy. http://flip.it/yu36p

  

  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  Jan 27, 2016

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/report-flaws-guns-on-campus_us_56a64d7be4b076aadcc73ec6

  

  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  Jan 27, 2016
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  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  

  Gun violence not a mental health issue, experts say, pointing to ‘anger,’ suicides

  CNN - Emanuella Grinberg

  CNN — If there’s anything both sides of America’s heated and polarizing gun debate may agree on, it’s the need to keep firearms out of the hands of people with serious mental illness. That is not the same as saying gun violence is a mental health issue, which has become a renewed area of contention …

• Data is necessary for research and yet Congress continues to block research by CDC on #GunViolence.

  

  Roberta Proffitt Lavin

  

  Lynch: Congress gave Obama right to dictate gun control

  wnd.com - Cheryl Chumley

  Loretta Lynch U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told lawmakers on Capitol Hill the president definitely has the legal right to use his executive …