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‘Smart guns’ can decrease youth suicides, safety advocates say
Seattle Times Smart guns that can be activated only by an authorized user can reduce suicides, particularly among youth, homicides and accidental deaths, gun-safety advocates said Thursday at a Seattle symposium. Read more
Youth, Suicide and Firearms Symposium (and Luncheon)
Please join us for the Youth, Suicide and Firearms Symposium, where we will be looking closely at the facts about guns and youth suicide. We will have two panel discussions; one focused on the causes and risk factors for youth suicide, and the second looking at...
The one thing the president can do now to reduce gun violence
The Hill The president has been on quite a roll recently, with favorable rulings from the Supreme Court on gay marriage and ObamaCare, congressional passage of his Asian trade pact, and a memorable, racially healing speech after the Charleston tragedy. But the one...
Can Making Guns “Smarter” Save Lives?
KCRW From South Carolina this week, America got another reminder: the US has more guns — and more gun violence — than any other developed country. Mass shootings in the United States are on the increase—from one every 200 days two years ago to one every 64 days now....
‘Smart’ guns may help prevent violence — if they can make it on the U.S. market
Los Angeles Times German entrepreneur Bernd Dietel had a radical idea about gun safety. After a 2002 shooting at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt that left 16 people dead, Dietel envisioned guns with coded digital locks, similar to the ones his company installed on...
N.J. lawmakers may scrap controversial ‘smart gun’ law
NJ.com True Jersey Leading Democratic state lawmakers are seriously considering scrapping New Jersey's longstanding but never-implemented law requiring all handguns sold in the state feature "smart gun" technology that allows only the weapon's owners to fire them, NJ...