Adhiti Bandlamudi
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The school security industry is booming. But how do schools sort through the endless options to find a solution that works for them?
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College campuses in the South see more shootings than college campuses in other regions. Why is this the case?
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Researchers want to understand gun ownership statistics in the U.S. But without official data, they have turned to another measure.
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A new study found a growing divergence in gun ownership and mass shooting rates between states with more permissive vs. restrictive gun laws.
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Lockdown drills have become increasingly common in schools across the United States. Though drills differ from school to school, they usually require…
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A recent report from the FBI shows there were more background checks conducted in 2018 than the year before. That doesn't necessarily mean there were more guns sold.
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Researchers studied 10 years of teenage suicide rates and found that gun ownership "is a factor that really is highly predictive for what the youth suicide rate is going to be," said Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health and one of the paper's authors.
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Andy Simmons, a lieutenant in the Hillsborough, North Carolina, police department purchased Airsoft guns for a training exercise. When they arrived, he realized they could easily be confused for real guns.
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50 Years After The 1968 Gun Control Act, It Is Still Difficult To Define Who Is Too Dangerous To BuyIn the 50 years since the Gun Control Act of 1968 was signed, our understanding of mental illness has become more nuanced, while federal regulations largely have not.
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Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with anthropologist David Graeber about the rise of what he calls "bullshit jobs," and how these positions affect the people who hold them.