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Victoria Brownworth
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Guys in my mentions arguing that #NotAllMen are the perpetrators of #GunViolence, sorry, but you are.
It is a predominantly male crime and you kill each other most often.
Don't fight me on the stats, do something to stop the violence.
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
Guns are used in more than 70% of all homicides.
For every person killed in a gun homicide, six more are injured in a gun assault.
Gun homicides are on the rise, up 30% from 2014 to 2017.
Access to a gun doubles the risk of homicide.
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
On average, fewer people die from gun violence in states with strong gun laws and more people die in states with weak gun laws.

The US gun homicide rate is 25 times that of other high-income countries
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
Women in the United States are 21 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
Black adults and children are most at risk from #GunViolence.

Black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide, and 14 times more likely than white Americans to be injured in a gun assault

lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
Gun violence is the second-leading cause of death among children overall and the first-leading cause of death among black children.
Black children are 10 times more likely to be killed in a gun homicide than white children.
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
Nearly 1 million women alive today report being shot or shot at by an intimate partner, and 4.5 million women alive today report that an intimate partner threatened them using a gun.
lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-viol…
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#LaborDay is a day to highlight the inequality of women's work and unpaid labor. Women are 80 percent of America's working class and working poor. Those are facts we rarely hear from elected officials.
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Victoria Brownworth
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I just watched @Naomi_Osaka_ & @CocoGauff on @ABC.😭
Last year Osaka was comforted by @SerenaWilliams when the crowd booed her when she beat Serena. This year she comforted Coco when she lost & spoke to her parents. Such an amazing, selfless player. Brava.
Naomi Osaka: "I want Coco to know she's accomplished so much" | #USOpen
Co-sign.
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Linda Ronstadt, born & raised on the US/Mexico border: “There’s a real conspiracy of international fascism that wants to defeat democracy. They want all the power for themselves, and I think that suits Donald Trump right now. He’d like to be a dictator.”
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Kristin Hook
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Since the 1996 Dickey Amendment, the CDC has been forbidden to research the public health epidemic of #GunViolence in the United States. Lucky for you, I don’t work for the CDC but am a scientist who recently spent some time gathering evidence from publicly available information.
Listen: one of the coolest things about the United States is that it serves as a natural experiment. We can look at all of the differences among our states to ask and answer meaningful questions.
What every American should be asking themselves right now is this: what is the evidence that guns are not the problem, that good people with guns stop bad people with guns, or that gun control doesn’t work?
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As an American, as a Texan, as a person of mixed race with an Hispanic family, and as a scientist, I turned my anger and sadness from these weekend’s mass shootings into an opportunity to take a closer look into the public health epidemic of #GunViolence in the United States.
A diverse melting pot of people and ideas, our country sets the stage for a natural experiment across state lines in which we can use the variation across states to actually test ideas and hypotheses, including the effects of guns and gun laws on gun violence.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH
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#gunviolence is an epidemic in the United States.

What caught our attention yesterday: the utterly horrifying #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting . Details still emerging.

-----But there was more-------
Also this weekend, less heralded: Brooklyn festival shooting, in which at least 11 people were hurt. As many as at Gilroy. cnn.com/2019/07/28/us/…
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After The March: A youth led townhall in Miami Dade addressing neighborhood gun violence.

Aliyah says there are clear neighborhood divides when it comes to gun violence. The people in Miami Beach can walk to Publix at 3 a.m. @WLRN #gunviolence
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✡️ Josh Shahryar ☪
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I should be finishing my grad school application and writing sample. BUT, I need to write about Aziz Ansari. I'm getting tired of all the apologia, victim-blaming and using ambiguity to try and defend him from what he did. I will get flak for this, but I don't really care.
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This is it. SHE SAID NO!
This is NOT rocket science. When someone says, " Whoa, let's relax for a sec, let's chill" when you say you want to go grab a condom so you can fuck them, your response must be, "I totally understand. What would you prefer?"

NOT what he did which was to pretend it didn't happen
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