Media

IN THE NEWS

A SAMPLING OF THE RANDOM GUN VIOLENCE THAT IS SO PERVASIVE INT HE UNITED STATES:

• July 4th and 5th have the most shootings of any days of the year (CNN)

• Houston police investigation underway after 8-year-old girl may have been accidentally shot to death (ABC13 Houston)

• 2 Birmingham firefighters shot, seriously wounded at fire station (CBS News)

• Surgeon shot to death in suburban Memphis clinic (CBS News)

• 7-year-old shot and killed on Fourth of July after jet ski dispute in Florida (nbcnews.com)

• Teens turned around in a fire chief’s driveway. He pulled a gun on them (Washington Post)

• Triple shooting in Philadelphia's East Germantown leaves boy dead (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Man in bulletproof vest fatally shoots 5, injures 2 in Philadelphia; suspect in custody (CBS News)

• Saratoga County woman killed after turning into wrong driveway (Times Union)

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

• How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment (Brennan Center for Justice)

• I Finally Asked My Second-Grader What Happens in Her Lockdown Drills. It Broke My Heart (Slate)

• Empty seats at US graduations reveal toll of gun violence: ‘We’re losing our kids’ (The Guardian)

• The Role of Guns In America (NPR)

• Reporter covering Nashville school shooting makes stunning announcement on-air: ‘I am a survivor’ (Today)

• The Supreme Court Case That Has Me Worried, for Survivors and for My State (New York Times)

• Biden to Congress one year after Buffalo shooting: 'For God's sake, do something’ (The Hill)
  

NEWS RELATED TO HIGHLAND PARK JULY 4th, 2022 MASS SHOOTING

• A year after Highland Park parade mass shooting, advocacy becomes a way of coping (Chicago Sun-Times)

• Boy injured in Highland Park parade shooting throws out first pitch (Chicago Sun-Times)

• Highland Park shooting survivor looks beyond a long, arduous recovery (The Washington Post)

• How Highland Park shooting turned some survivors into advocates (Daily Herald)

• Highland Park mothers join Capitol Hill ‘Shooting Survivor SIt-In’ (Chicago Tribune)

• Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering Testifies at Senate Judiciary Hearing (c-span)

• Victims of Highland Park Mass Shooting sue gun manufactuerer, two gun stores, the accused shooter and his father (CNN)

• Highland Park shooting victims file lawsuits against gun-maker over advertising practices (ABC News)

• Brady and Edelson PC Files Lawsuit Against Smith & Wesson on Behalf of Victims of the Highland Park Mass Shooting (Brady)