The Arizona lawmaker who pushed through the territory's 1864 abortion ban married three children afterward theconversation.com/arizonas-1864-…

Last year someone was shot in a road rage incident every 18 hours on average.

A decade ago, it was once every 4 days.

Road rage shootings are increasing in the US: thetrace.org/2024/04/road-r…

'Fundamental misunderstandings of sexual violence perpetrated by men known to, and with significant power over, the women they victimize are on full display in the majority’s opinion,' Judge Madeline Singas wrote.

'Because New York’s women deserve better, I dissent.'

Over the last decade the number of people shot in road rage incidents surged 450% Chip Brownlee and I report for The Trace: thetrace.org/2024/04/road-r…

The most common perpetrator of a school shooting is a current student.

Teachers are being armed for the purpose of shooting a student instead of addressing the root cause of this problem…teens who can easily access guns.

Let that sink in.

'Not only can the state bill an inmate the $50 a day even after they are released, Florida can also impose a new bill on the next occupant of that bed, potentially allowing the state to double, triple, or quadruple charge for the same bed.'

But hey no state taxes 🌴

“If the physician provides the care the patient needs, then the physician is in harm’s way. And if the physician doesn’t provide the care the patient needs, the patient is in harm’s way. But neither of them can ever be safe at the same time.” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

40 years ago today, a man angry that teenagers cut through his yard shot 16 people at two grocery stores in Palm Bay, Florida. 6 of them died latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

Today, April 20th, marks the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. In this new season of my podcast LONG SHADOW, I look back at how American life has been changed by guns—and why. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…

The decisions people make with guns have ripple effects that extend throughout families and communities and across the years. The pain never ends. Cassie and my cousin, who thankfully had moved away in 1998 and wasn't at Columbine for the massacre, deserved so much better.

This is my cousin, then 16, mourning her best friend, Cassie, who was murdered 25 years ago today, along with 14 others at Columbine High School. The anguish in her voice before they found Cassie's body haunts me.

My cousin would live a hard life.

We lost her, too, in 2020.

25 years ago today, 12 students and a teacher were killed and 21 others were wounded when two students opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.

On this day in 1995, a right-wing terrorist detonated a truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 men, women & children, and injuring hundreds more, in the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Unintended consequence: School lockdown drills also teach kids how to be a school shooter.