Mental Health Outcomes in Children after Parental Firearm Injury | NEJM Every year, approximately 20,000 youths lose a parent to firearm injury in the United States. Many more youths have parents who sustain nonfatal firearm injuries. The effect of parents’ firearm inj...

Common sense would predict that children get pretty fucked up witnessing a parent either die or get seriously injured by gun violence. This study just published in @nejm.org dives deeper into just HOW fucked up kids can get.

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Florida GOP Gun Bill Seeks to Allow Open Carry on College Campuses The bill would expand Florida’s “guardian” program, which allows staff to carry weapons on school grounds.

Oh, this is going to end well. /s

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Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is Part of a Trend: Spiking Gun Violence in Red States Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah fits a pattern of gun violence run amok in red states.

The red state gun murder paradox: you are much more likely to die from getting shot by someone with a gun in Republican-run states with laxer/fewer/nonexistent gun control laws. Supposedly having “more freedom” also includes the freedom to die of gunshot wounds. Go figure.

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In memory of the two firefighters who got ambushed and died responding to a fire in Idaho. Not in memory of the gunman who killed himself because he was an asshole. Fuck him.

Is it time for some gun control yet?

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Full Interview: “An Outstanding Leader”: Minnesota Mourns Assassinated Lawmaker Melissa Hortman as Suspect Is Arrested Watch Part 2 of our interview with Patricia Torres Ray, former Minnesota state senator and former colleague of Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman.

www.democracynow.org/2025/6/16/fm...

A much fuller picture of assassinated Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman than I bet most of you were expecting. Well worth listening to or reading, as are most things on Democracy Now!

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Bluesky coming in a little too hot

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