Tagged gun violence

The Fairfield University Social Work Club rallied the local community to combat social isolation and prevent gun violence through the “Start with Hello” 5K hosted on Sunday, Oct. 1.  The “Start...

Two weeks after the publication of this issue will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It was a day that forever changed my hometown and forever changed me.  I was...

New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy has proposed new legislation to increase the price for gun permits throughout the state, as reported by The New York Times.. While New Jersey has previously taken...

It’s been one year since the shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017. It was the deadliest shooting in modern history, killing 58 people, but it seems like the public has forgotten the trauma America has, and...

The problem of gun violence in America is often conceptualized in terms of assault rifles and mass shootings, not the violence some communities face daily. In the John A. Barone Campus Center Oak Room on Sept....

The Walsh Art Gallery in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is currently hosting the art exhibit, “#UNLOAD: Guns in the Hands of Artists.” Each piece of art in the exhibition discusses the...

On Thursday, May 3, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Dr. Kim Oliver’s History of Social Welfare course will be hosting an event entitled “Stop Gun Violence Now” in the Dogwoods Room, located in the John A....

In 1996, Congress passed the “Dickey Amendment,” which banned Centers for Disease Control scientists from using congressional money to advocate for gun control. On paper, this is a reasonable limit – but...