Guns and teens can be a lethal mix. Immaturity and impulsiveness, combined with weapons that can kill with the squeeze of a trigger, have caused death and devastating injuries to Wisconsin children and adults.
Tag: Guns
Posted inGovernment, Health & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
Child gun laws in Wisconsin
Wisconsin gun laws prohibit children from possessing firearms, with few exceptions.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
Bullets exacted terrible toll on children, African Americans
African Americans were more than 30 times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be murdered by guns in 2014, a Center analysis found.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety, News about Wisconsin Watch, Precious Lives
Precious Lives: Two-year project will examine gun violence among youth and seek solutions
A newly launched two-year project investigating the problem of gun violence among young people, its causes, and potential solutions in the Milwaukee area and statewide.
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Profiles in carnage
This story is the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s first report for Precious Lives, a newly launched two-year project investigating the problem of gun violence among young people, its causes, and potential solutions in the Milwaukee area and statewide. Read more about the project. Main story Bullets exacted terrible toll on children, African Americans A […]
Posted inMoney & Politics Column
Gun bill died without shots being fired
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism filed a request with Darling’s office for her records on the bill. The 137 released pages provide some insight into what went on behind the scenes, but fall short of explaining why.
Posted inMoney & Politics Column
Gun bills fail, shots fly
Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn implored the community to stop tolerating young men carrying guns. And he called on the governor and Legislature “to pass a law that makes these little monsters afraid to get locked up for possessing a gun.”
Posted inGovernment, Justice & Safety, Money & Politics
State weapons law conceals information
More than 4,000 applicants were denied a Wisconsin concealed carry license and more than 400 had their licenses revoked or suspended in the program’s first 14 months, records show. These included dozens of felons, domestic abusers, illegal drug users and “fugitives from justice.”
Posted inJustice & Safety
Police account of shooting disputed
The owner of a home mistakenly entered by an intoxicated neighbor who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer arriving on the scene said he tried repeatedly to inform the officer that the intruder was someone known to him.
Posted inMoney & Politics Column
Gun law push will face pushback
Then a gunman with an assault rifle murdered 26 people, mostly little children, at an elementary school in Connecticut. This atrocity, on top of other recent carnage, including two mass shootings in Wisconsin, is seen as opening the door to new gun laws.
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Map: Wisconsin mass murders
In Wisconsin, guns were involved in all but four of the 29 multiple murders we know of since 1985. At least 105 people died in these incidents.
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A long wait yields expansive new freedoms
Wisconsin’s new law, which allows citizens to carry concealed weapons, has been hailed by the NRA as “one of the nation’s strongest.”