Guns: killing or saving? America's gun problem

On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In the aftermath, led first by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, teenagers around the country initiated an unprecedented wave of youth activism for gun control. Teenage voices from all sides of the issue weighed in, and in the months that followed, they helped reinvigorate one of the nation's longest-raging debates. Beginning in March 2018, NPR sought out more than 15 teenagers from nine states and Washington, D.C., to document their relationship with guns. Everyone featured in the resulting film was 17 years old in 2018. Most of these teens were seniors in high school. As they approached their graduations, they spoke from a variety of diverse backgrounds and perspectives — from sport shooters in the Midwest to a student planning to join the military in the Southwest; from a teenager in Washington, D.C., who lost his twin brother to gun violence to a young woman in Montana...

How does the U.S. compare to the rest of the world when it comes to gun violence? Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWCamcZNlk

Ceilidh Kern, a sophomore, and Jaylah Ross, a junior, are two students who participated in the March 14 school walkouts, and are part of a team from more than a dozen of our Student Reporting Labs who are covering the day's events for the NewsHour. They join Judy Woodruff to discuss why they walked out, the passion driving children to participate and what they would say directly to policymakers. Links : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pP8KSRHCiI http://clg-monnet-briis.ac-versailles.fr

Middle and high school students across the country shared their thoughts on gun violence with the NewsHour after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, one year ago. We thought you’d like to read their voices, since they were very clear in wanting to share them. Nobody wants to become a school shooter by Sadler, 10th grade, Greenville, North Carolina While drills and surveillance can help prepare a school for such a disaster, those who wish to carry out such an act will find a way to do so. The easiest way to halt this pattern of school shootings is to focus on security from the inside. Continue with security protocols and drills and increase camera surveillance, but don’t overdramatize the issue. Avoid enhanced measures, like metal detectors or police officers, which make schools feel like prisons. Find ways to improve the morale of the student body. Make schools kinder places. Help stop bullying and racism. Protect students mentally, and they will be safer ph...

Gun Violence in the U.S.: 6 Real Ways We Can Help Reduce It 1.     Buying a gun should be like buying a ca r The reduction in U.S. motor-vehicle deaths over the past 50 years is one of the great triumphs of public-health intervention. Safer cars, stronger seat-belt laws and fewer teenage drivers have helped reduce car fatalities, which dropped from 33.5 deaths per billion miles travelled in 1975 to 11.8 in 2016. Gun deaths have increased steadily since 2009 and are now nearly as lethal as traffic accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lawmakers can learn lessons from auto safety. To start, they can put in effect more rigorous requirements for owning firearms. “For the most part, it is much easier to be a legal gun owner in America than it is to be a legal driver,” says David Hemenway, director of the Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Publ...