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American tragedy of children shooting children as Republicans block gun safety reforms

Tiny Hands, Big Guns – Mapping the American tragedy of children shooting children

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal, map, political districts, accountability, Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

“six-year-old shoots teacher at a Virginia elementary school…” “A gun manufacturer has launched a new marketing campaign for an AR-15 designed for children weeks after a six-year-old shot a teacher at a Virginia elementary school.” – Inside How many children are shooting other children?What firearms do they use?Why do Republicans block gun safety measures?How much does the NRA …

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What happens to mass shooting survivors?

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), map, political districts, accountability, Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Mass shootings take lives: Both of the killed and the survivors. Survivors are often overlooked. They’re injured both physically and mentally. Many unable to work. Suffer from emotional trauma. Drop out of the workforce to care for a victim. Struggle with huge medical bills. What are the most common injuries in a mass shooting? What …

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Republicans block gun safety reforms and stoke hate

Republicans send thoughts and prayers with blood on their hands

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

What’s behind the surge in gun violence? University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO, and at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, VA. Three horrific acts of gun violence this week stress the urgent need for gun safety reforms. Republicans claim to be for law and order, but block gun safety reforms …

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Mapping the carnage caused by assault weapons at mass shootings

Newtown Action Alliance maps assault weapon carnage at mass shootings

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

More Americans have died from gun violence than in military combat, but Republicans still block gun safety measures. Gun violence threatens our freedom more than any threat abroad. It turns American schools, shopping malls, movie theaters, concerts, houses of worship into war zones. There have been nearly 4,000 mass shootings and over 350,000 Americans have …

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Teachers deserve better

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

The GOP war on education has created a teacher shortage. Republicans slash teachers’ wages and public school funding. Issue educational gag orders that politicize education. Block safety measures to curb school mass shootings. Any surprise there are so many teaching vacancies? Students and teachers deserve better. “School is a place where childhood happens. A place …

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Thoughts and Prayers

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

A little humor goes a long way. Plus it engages more people with less expense. Just take a look at the ‘Thanks‘ that Jason Selvig from the Good Liars gave to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention for all his ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ to gun shooting victims. That video has already had closed to 10 …

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Mass shootings surge with gun lobby donations to Republicans to weaken gun safety regulations

Mass shootings mapped against NRA donations to Republicans

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

What’s the connection between mass shootings and NRA donations to Republicans who weaken gun safety? Follow the money with this map that shows mass shooting details and the Republicans senators and congressional reps who get blood money donations from the gun lobby. The map uses public data on gun lobby donations from Open Secrets and …

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Republican gun policies help mass shooters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Power mapping / By Deepak Puri

A racist teenager kills ten in Buffalo with a military-style assault weapon. What role do Republican policies play in the surge of mass shootings? “The shooter at a Buffalo supermarket legally obtained an AR-15 style rifle… but what has made this so lethal, and so devastating for this community, was the high-capacity magazine that would have …

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Common sense gun measures reduce mass shootings

Mass shootings, NRA influence & Republican obstruction: editorial cartoons

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Messaging, Uncategorized / By Deepak Puri

“The country grappled with yet another bloody rampage in Indianapolis, only weeks after back-to-back mass shootings last month in Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado” – NYT These editorial cartoons highlight the NRA’s influence, Republican obstruction and the urgent need for common sense gun safety laws. DeepakDemLabs Common sense gun safety measures – GIF Common sense gun …

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Republican obstruction has blocked common sense gun safety measures that could reduce mass shootings

Mass shootings surge while Republicans block common sense gun safety measures

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Seven deadly mass shootings in a week! What will it take to pass common sense gun safety measures? Who is behind the obstruction that gets more Americans killed every day? According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, there have been 108 mass shootings this year. To put that into …

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