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MFP Voices

Gun Control Laws Don’t Pass Congress, Despite Majority Public Support And Repeated Outrage

With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., legislation introduced in response to mass killings has consistently failed to pass the Senate. Political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones address why further restrictions never pass, despite a majority of Americans supporting tighter gun control laws.

Monika L. McDermott and David R. Jones May 27, 2022

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News

‘There Might be a Shooting’: Jackson City Council Rejects Fireworks Displays for Juneteenth, July 4

Department of Parks and Recreation Director Ison B. Harris Jr. unsuccessfully pushed for the funding of a fireworks display for the Juneteenth celebration in Jackson.

Kayode Crown May 13, 2022

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Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

Oresa Napper-Williams is the founder of Not Another Child, a nonprofit organization that she founded after her son, Andrell Daron Napper, was killed by gun violence in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2007. One mission of her work is to ensure that parents who lost children to violence are treated with respect and dignity, and get the resources they need. She both collaborates with NYPD on violence prevention and is frank about problems within policing, including respect for Black community members.

Aliyah Veal February 18, 2022

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MFP Voices

U.S. Blood Supply At 10-Year Low Heading Into Year 3 of Pandemic

In January 2022, the American Red Cross declared its first-ever national blood crisis. A joint statement by the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association said that the “severity and duration of this shortage could significantly jeopardize the ability of health care providers to meet the many urgent needs of our patients and communities.”

Anna Nagurney February 16, 2022

News

Black FedEx Driver Says White Men Chased, Shot At Him During Deliveries

A Black FedEx driver says he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., late last month when two white men assailed him, including one who allegedly fired multiple bullets into his delivery truck.

Ashton Pittman February 4, 2022

BWC

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

Oren D’Lonte Anderson was only 22 when he died from gunfire in South Jackson in late 2020 during a December spike of both COVID-19 and homicides in Mississippi’s capital city. His mother Shannon Anderson believed he was on the path to succeeding in life although he suffered from an under-treated mental illness.

DeAnna Tisdale Johnson February 3, 2022

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MFP Voices

Gun Violence Soared During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Complex Reasons

In a new study, we found that the overall U.S. gun violence rate rose by 30% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the year before. In 28 states, the rates were substantially higher between March 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, compared to the pre-pandemic period from Feb. 1, 2019, through Feb. 29, 2020. There were 51,063 incidents of gun violence events resulting in injury or death in the United States in the first 13 months of the pandemic compared to 38,919 incidents in the same time span pre-pandemic.

Paddy Ssentongo and Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld November 17, 2021

Culture

‘Stand Up, Speak Up’: Jacksonians Gather to Fight Back Against Gun Violence

“We had a village. We were taking care of our own. But when crack came, our entire way of life changed, and we are still dealing with the aftermath of the crack cocaine epidemic,” Meredith McGee says at the “Stand Up Speak Up: Rally 4 Peace” she organized in Jackson on May 6.

Aliyah Veal May 13, 2021

News

(Updated) Three Men Arrested for Murder of Greenville Native Home from New York

Mississippi expatriate Kenny Wayne Mason, a popular long-time maître d’ at the Waverly Inn in New York City, moved home to his family in Greenville after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. On Oct. 21, Mason was found shot to death.

Christian Middleton October 26, 2020

Gun Control Laws Don’t Pass Congress, Despite Majority Public Support And Repeated Outrage

‘There Might be a Shooting’: Jackson City Council Rejects Fireworks Displays for Juneteenth, July 4

Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

U.S. Blood Supply At 10-Year Low Heading Into Year 3 of Pandemic

Black FedEx Driver Says White Men Chased, Shot At Him During Deliveries

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

‘Stand Up, Speak Up’: Jacksonians Gather to Fight Back Against Gun Violence

(Updated) Three Men Arrested for Murder of Greenville Native Home from New York

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