By Claire Davis, age 13 and IndyKids Staff
Around the country, some lawmakers are attempting to make it easier to carry a gun in public without training, a permit or being subject to a background check.
Around the country, students demand action to prevent more school shootings. Eleanor Hedges Duroy, age 15 A March for Our Lives, a youth-centered movement, has taken root across the nation. Students everywhere are voicing their right to attend classes peacefully without the threat of gun violence, and they are organizing to advocate for change. …
Raleigh Bowers, age 11 In response to the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students have organized protests calling for stricter gun control laws. People are asking questions about why was it so easy for the gunman to get his weapon and why are the laws are so loose around …
Eleanor Hedges Duroy, age 15 Without stricter gun control laws to prevent deadly weapons from falling into the wrong hands, some schools are considering other alternatives to prevent school shootings. Those solutions are not without their downsides. Arming the Faculty President Trump and Florida lawmakers have proposed arming the faculty and staff. Teachers, parents, …
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By Sophie J Paiva, Age 9, Naasir M Favors, Age 10, and IndyKids Staff In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings reported in the United States. According to a Quinnipiac University poll in November last year, 95 percent of American voters support universal background checks for gun purchases, and 65 percent support a nationwide …
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Young people are the number one group impacted by gun violence, according to the Center for American Progress. Gun violence impacts people between the ages of 15 and 24 more than any other type of violence. On average, approximately 33,000 people die and 70,000 are wounded by guns every year. Many activists and organizations are working to reduce gun violence by educating the public and advocating for stricter gun control laws.
Outrage in Chicago after Laquan McDonald, an African-American teenager, was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer.
Leah Gunn Barrett is the executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV). Her nonprofit organization recently released a video in which real people expected to purchase a gun for protection, but left after learning the tragic history behind each weapon. The video went viral.
This year, nearly 1,000 people have been killed by police officers in the United States, according to the Guardian’s new website, “The Counted.”
On November 2, 2013, Renisha McBride, a 19-year-old African American woman, was killed by 54-year-old homeowner Theodore Wafer after she knocked on his door in a suburb of Detroit.
