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As Trump Pushes for Troops in Chicago, City Leaders Say His Cuts Could Fuel Crime Local leaders want federal funding reinstated to maintain Chicago’s progress in reducing gun violence.

As the Trump administration threatened to send federal troops in Chicago to fight crime, local leaders, including Governor Pritzker, responded by saying that not only is Trump not wanted, he’s flat out wrong: Chicago is experiencing a significant drop in gun violence.

Trump’s Fixation on Urban Crime Ignores Worsening Rural Violence, Experts Say Public health researchers say the premise behind the president’s federal intervention in D.C. disregards key progress, and sidelines critical suicide prevention efforts.

Public health experts say framing gun violence solely as an “urban” issue ignores rising rates in rural communities, especially suicides, and risks sidelining proven solutions.

@fairrionam.bsky.social digs into this in her latest piece for @thetrace.org

Gun Rights Supporters Could Accept Significant Regulations, Per Industry’s Research After Parkland, the gun industry found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments.

As people once again think about gun reforms in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, I hope you’ll read my latest story, which is based on gun industry documents and pubbed in partnership with @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com

www.thetrace.org/2025/08/gun-...

Gun Rights Supporters Could Accept Significant Regulations, Per Industry’s Research After Parkland, the gun industry found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments.

SCOOP: After Parkland, the gun industry found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments.

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Now, Gov. Abbott is faced with a choice: Expand the call and own the agenda of keeping records from the Uvalde incident secret, which is the Elephant In The Room driving the bill that everyone wants to avoid admitting.

The Data Doesn’t Support Trump’s Justification for Deploying the National Guard Trump has taken over policing in D.C. and threatened to do the same in other cities. A Trace analysis shows that his claims of runaway violence are false.

President Donald Trump sent the National Guard and other feds to D.C. to combat what he claims is an out-of-control crime problem, and singled out five other cities where he said crime is “very bad”: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Oakland.
Violence is falling in all of these cities.

The Data Doesn’t Support Trump’s Justification for Deploying the National Guard Trump has taken over policing in D.C. and threatened to do the same in other cities. A Trace analysis shows that his claims of runaway violence are false.

Historically, presidents have deployed the National Guard to desegregate schools and protect civil rights protesters — not to police street crime, experts say. There’s little, if any, research about using the guard for everyday policing, largely because that kind of deployment is unprecedented.

Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, the Gun Industry’s Own Research Reveals The gun industry is pushing Congress to loosen restrictions on carrying, even though routine carrying makes even its customers feel less safe.

1/My primary concern as an investigative reporter is unearthing what the gun lobby/industry does not disclose to the public. In that regard, I consider my latest story for @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com to be among the most significant I've ever published: www.thetrace.org/2025/07/gun-...

Maryland Launched a Data Dashboard to Prevent Gun Violence and Protect Against Federal Cuts Maryland’s tool makes gun violence data publicly available. It’s designed to withstand the political turmoil in Washington, D.C.

The Maryland Department of Health launched a dashboard that makes shooting data available to the public. It’s designed to withstand federal funding uncertainties.

Why Does the Right Falsely Blame Trans People for Mass Shootings? Misinformation circulating after last month’s attack on Minnesota state lawmakers underscores a calculated campaign to demonize the trans community.

After two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes on June 14, social media was rife with false claims that the shooter was transgender. In fact, the suspect is a cisgender white man, reportedly a Trump supporter. But that didn’t stop the onslaught of misinformation.

White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

The core of the country’s gun market is composed of white men, specifically repeat buyers. The gun industry knows this, and has tried to alter public perception — at the same time that it’s marketed Second Amendment extremism to its best customers.

With @rollingstone.com:

A Connecticut Violence Interruption Group Traded Paperwork for an App. It’s Been Transformational. COMPASS Youth Collaborative developed Navi to help with case management. It’s become the backbone of the operation.

COMPASS Youth Collaborative developed an app to help with case management. It’s become the backbone of the operation — saving time, logging wins, and keeping credible messengers and the kids they work with safe.

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Trump Moves to Undo Biden’s Gun Policies The president ordered his newly appointed attorney general, Pam Bondi, to review Biden’s efforts to reduce gun violence — and develop a “plan of action.”

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on February 7 in an apparent step toward fulfilling his campaign promises to roll back four years of gun reforms under his predecessor.

When Pregnancy Makes You a Target Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows o...

1/ Homicide leads among causes of death for pregnant and postpartum women. At the highest risk: Black and young women. Most of the deaths are attributed to firearms.

When I first read these data points, I was shocked, so I spent the next year reporting on it.

www.thetrace.org/2024/12/preg...

this seems to bother quite a few people but the answer is that i’m just yapping and i don’t feel the need to add punctuation or capitalization when it isn’t necessary for meaning

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The Gun Violence Data Hub — An initiative of The Trace The Gun Violence Data Hub, an initiative of The Trace, provides support, resources, and reliable data to newsrooms, researchers, and the public. The Hub features three main tools: A help desk to…

🔊 The first phase of The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub just launched!

This initiative provides support, resources, and reliable data to newsrooms, researchers, and the public.

Explore the website:

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2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”

NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.

🧵 Election Day is quickly approaching — and the stakes for American gun policy are high.

Here’s what you need to know:

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North Texas Sheriff Running for Reelection Faces Grief and Anger Over Rising Jail Deaths Advocates and families of people who died in the Tarrant County jail have called for outside intervention and the resignation of Sheriff Bill Waybourn. He

a TX sheriff on the ballot next month appears to be violating state law for how sheriffs are required to investigate jail deaths, which have spiked on his watch

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A Gun Law the NRA Opposes Could Have Saved Its Employee’s Life The National Rifle Association once supported red flag gun laws, which are meant to protect people like Dawn Williams-Stewart, a staffer who was shot and killed by her husband.

A former NRA employee was shot and killed by her husband in 2008. A red flag law could have saved her.

But despite initially supporting these laws in 2018, the NRA has joined other gun rights groups in trying to quash them.