Gun violence prevention groups across the state gathered on Feb. 26 to advocate for gun reform. More than 100 people, including dozens of students, joined Ceasefire and other groups to learn about the bills being considered this year. Advocates then went to the state Capitol, where we scheduled more than 30 meetings with state legislators
In what promises to be a landmark case, a Barrow County, Georgia jury took only two hours to find Colin Gray, 55, guilty of charges including second-degree murder and cruelty to children in connection with the September 2024 mass shooting at Apalachee High School. His son is charged with the shooting itself but has not
The Georgia conviction of an alleged shooter’s father this week frustrates some Evergreen High School parents, who, nearly six months after the shootings there, say they are still searching for answers. Some parents say the bare investigative summary released by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has done little to satisfy them, and have requested the
New data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that states with the highest rates of overall gun death in the nation are those with weaker gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership, according to a new Violence Policy Center (VPC) analysis. The state with the highest gun
Check out this USA Today editorial by Kris Brown, President of Brady: United Against Gun Violence, on the safe gun storage shown by series heroine Sidney Prescott. In the film, Prescott (Neve Campbell) is seen locking up a gun in a safe. “These depictions matter,” Brown writes. “When the first Scream film was released in
