Gun Violence
Tags: GUN control; VIOLENCE -- Prevention
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- Clinton launches nationwide `cash for guns' program. Browne // New York Amsterdam News;09/16/99, Vol. 90 Issue 38, p40
Reports on the Bill Clinton Administration's plan to launch a gun buyback program in the United States. Program as part of a nationwide violence prevention program; Appropriation of $15 million for the program; Enabling of police departments to purchase guns from people across the country.
- Is image everything? // NEA Today;Mar94, Vol. 12 Issue 7, p18
Focuses on the costs of gun injuries and the efforts of public health officials to reduce the rate of gun violence. Average costs of treating gun injuries; Reduction of gun violence using strategies that have been used successfully to reduce smoking rates.
- Pastors Work with Police to End Gun Violence. Cagney, Mary // Christianity Today;09/04/2000, Vol. 44 Issue 10, p34
Highlights efforts by urban pastors to end gun violence in Chicago, Illinois. Services offered through the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention; Results of the project Objective of the Project Surefire.
- In Guns We Trust. // Christianity Today;10/04/99, Vol. 43 Issue 11, p30
Editorial. Suggests Christian solutions on the implementation of gun control in the United States. Overview on cases of gun violence; Comments on America's fascination with violence.
- San Francisco hospitals unite to end violence. // AHA News;01/19/98, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p6
Focuses on the gun control programs launched by San Francisco, California-based hospitals on January 17 and February 14, 1998. Background on the conceptualization of the programs.
- Reducing gun deaths in the United States. Teret, Stephen P // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);05/01/99, Vol. 318 Issue 7192, p1160
Discusses the strategies on the prevention of gun deaths at schools in the United States. States which suffered tragic losses from gunfire; Details on some preventive methods in reducing the mortality rate; How personalized guns reduces the likelihood of homicidal shootings.
- Statement on the Gun-Free Schools Act. Clinton, William J. // Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents;10/30/95, Vol. 31 Issue 43, p1944
Presents a statement from US President Bill Clinton on October 26, 1995 on his objective for zero tolerance for gun control in schools in the country stipulated under the 1995 Gun-Free Schools Act of 1995.
- Would Stronger Gun Control Laws Make Schools Safer? // NEA Today;Oct99, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p11
Debates whether gun control laws would prevent school violence in the United States. Arguments raised by Bill Smith, teacher of history at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon; Other factors cited by Sherry McMorris, a kindergarten teacher at West Side School.
- Mayors set their sights on rising gun violence. Scherer, Ron // Christian Science Monitor;6/17/98, Vol. 90 Issue 141, p3
Discusses the creation of a task force by United States mayors to reduce gun violence. How Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Edward Rendell threatens to sue gun manufacturers; Development of 'smart guns' that electronically recognizes the owner; Detail on gun violence prevention and increased...
