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Inside the $4 Billion Industry Built on America’s School Shooting Epidemic

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The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings. “Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, who sells bulletproof wall art and […]

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Maine Voters Approve New Law to Prevent Suicides and Mass Shootings

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Though it was hardly a national focal point of the 2025 elections on Tuesday, Maine became the twenty-second state to adopt a “red flag” law for regulating guns, with the approval of nearly 59 percent of voters. Starting in January, Maine will allow families to petition a judge to remove firearms temporarily from a family […]

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Charlie Kirk and Trump’s Looming Political Crackdown

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The shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week was part of a wider, horrific trend: the rise of political violence in America. But Kirk’s murder also seemed to reveal something even darker. Before a suspect was found—when facts were scarce—the race for political retribution was already well underway.  On Tuesday, Utah prosecutors charged […]

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The Key Missing Piece to the Megahit “Adolescence”

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In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]

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Anti-Vaxxers Are Making Excuses for the CDC Shooter

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When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Scripps News this week to address the tragic CDC shooting, he began by condemning the violence that had occurred four days earlier, when shooter Patrick Joseph White fired over 180 rounds into CDC buildings in Atlanta, Georgia. White broke approximately 150 windows and […]

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Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

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Everything is bigger in Texas—except, apparently, memory of devastating mass shootings. In late June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill known as the Anti-Red Flag Act, which preemptively bans the creation or enforcement of extreme risk protective orders. Such orders are legal tools used to temporarily prohibit a person from having access […]

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As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down a Top Prevention Program

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Since March, the Trump administration has dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and targeted violence. The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, known as CP3, has been stripped of funding, and most of its 40-plus personnel have been fired, reassigned, or otherwise pushed out. Amid this […]

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