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Surviving Mass Shootings Draws 2 Floridians Together

8:55am March 19, 2018

Neema Bahrami, survivor of the 2016 Pulse shooting, Annabel Claprood, a sophomore at a Parkland high school where 17 were killed last month, and others have found common purpose in shared experiences.

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Business

North Carolinians React To Dick's Sporting Goods Assault-Style Rifle Ban

10:02am March 01, 2018

by David Ford

A leading sporting goods chain announced Wednesday that it will end sales of all assault-style rifles effective immediately.

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Onlookers offer support Wednesday at a crosswalk as students arrive for their first classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School since a massacre there two weeks ago killed 17 people.

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As Stoneman Douglas Resumes Class, Survivors Become Students Once More

2:31pm February 28, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at the high school, students returned to class Wednesday — this time joined by police officers, grief counselors and supporters cheering them on.

President Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and Dr. Igor Nichiporenko, speaks to reporters while visiting medical staff at Broward Health North in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Friday.

Trump Supports Improving Background Checks, But Will That Mean Action?

3:12pm February 19, 2018

by Arnie Seipel

The president is meeting with students and teachers about school safety this week. The White House says he supports improving background checks, but the issue has languished after past shootings.

Politics & Government

Live Video Stream: President Trump Addresses Florida Shooting

11:06am February 15, 2018

by NPR STAFF

President Trump is speaking for the first time about the shooting at a high school in South Florida that left at least 17 people dead.

Christine Caria in her home, holding a picture of her as a child in Lake Tahoe. It's her "happy place" that she thinks of when traumatic thoughts get into her head.

National

Victims Of Las Vegas Shooting: We Need More Help

7:00am January 20, 2018

by Leila Fadel

A fund set up to help the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas isn't getting the same kind of donations other funds in devastating tragedies have gotten.

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Kenneth and Irene Hernandez pay their respects as they visit a makeshift memorial with crosses placed near the scene of a shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas commu

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After A Vow To End 'This American Carnage,' A Year Of Deadly Violence

1:33pm December 27, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

Though America saw the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in 2017, efforts to enact new gun laws, once again, stalled in Congress.

Researchers Look For Gun Violence Clues In Google Searches And Background Checks

2:01pm December 07, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

After the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., there was a spike in gun sales. A study examined the spike and links increased gun exposure to more accidental firearm deaths.

An FBI agent scans the area outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, which went into lockdown during the shooting Tuesday. Tehama County, Calif., authorities credit that move with saving lives.

National

Police Find Body Of Gunman's Wife, Making His Death Toll 5

9:28pm November 15, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said that the body of Kevin Janson Neal's wife was found under the floor in their home and her murder is "what started this whole event."

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California Shootings Sprung From Domestic Violence, Restraining Order

10:13pm November 14, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

Tehama County authorities say one of the first victims killed Tuesday was a woman who had sought protection from the shooter earlier this year. Other victims may have been chosen randomly.