The Green Elephant - 73 - Climate Change and Gun Violence

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Climate Change and Gun Violence

Neighborhood Heat Exposure and Urban Gun ViolenceThis study will assess whether variations in daily temperature generate different effects on gun violence risk in cities and neighborhoods that experience heat more severely.

New Study Blames ‘Climate Change’ For Gun Violence. Morano Responds. • Watts Up With That?Marc Morano doesn't hold back.

Gun Control and Climate Change: Is It Really "Too Late"?Commentary: How psychology can help us save our children from ourselves.

Defund gun violence in your 401(k) | Fossil Free Funds | BlogClimate change isn’t the only risk facing your savings. Retirement funds are also invested in gun companies profiting from mass shootings

Americans want stricter gun safety measures. Gen Z will help us get there.Generation Z is always thinking about gun violence. It's time to listen to young people about guns and gun safety.

High temps and hot tempers: US road rage boils over as country sizzlesStudies show link between hot temps and hostile behavior, during which drivers’ brains are thrown into fight-flight-freeze cycle

Analysis of Daily Ambient Temperature and Firearm ...

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— Findings In this cross-sectional analysis of the 100 cities with largest burden of firearm shootings in the US, 6.85% of all shootings were attributed to excess heat.

Episode 179: Will Climate Change Increase Gun Violence?We discuss how climate change can worsen gun violence rates, with rising global temperatures leading to rising incidents of gun violence.

Gun violence. Climate change. LGBTQ justice. These Gen Z-led groups tackling our toughest challengesWhether it's fear of mass shootings that prompt scanning the room to find the closest exit sign before finding a seat or hyper-awareness of the increasing global temperature, their experiences are informing their activism.

From gun laws to climate change: How liability drives policy discussions on controversial issues - Estey & Bomberger, LLPEstey & Bomberger, LLPinvestigated how liability drives policy discussion on controversial issues using news and academic sources.

Climate crisis linked to rising domestic violence in south Asia, study findsIncrease of 1C in average annual temperature connected to more than 6% rise in physical and sexual domestic violence

‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brainsScientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What can we do about it?

What Does the 2nd Amendment Really Say?

The Mysterious Meaning of the Second AmendmentEven with the help of powerful 21st-century linguistic databases, the phrase “keep and bear arms” remains debatable.

How Second Amendment Extremism Led to the January 6 Capitol AttackHow Second Amendment extremism, combined with lax gun laws and an emboldened white supremacist movement, fomented the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

How the NRA Rewrote the Second AmendmentThe Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.

How Conservatives "Reinvented" the Second AmendmentWhile conventional wisdom suggests that an individual's right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, it is, in fact, a relatively recent interpretation, according to New Yorker writer and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

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Revisiting the Messy Language of the Second Amendment - JSTOR DailyThe debate over the Second Amendment is not just about guns—it's also about grammar.

The right to bear arms: what does the second amendment really mean?Its words have fueled centuries of debate – and not until 2008 did the supreme court clearly back an individual’s right to keep a weapon at home for self-defense

Gun Control is as Old as the West