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Mayors Against Illegal Guns Launches Interactive Map Showing States Still Fail to Submit Millions of Mental Health Records to the National Do-Not-Sell Database - Even After Latest Series of Mass Shootings 48,000 Americans Will Be Murdered with Guns in the Next President's Term - If Washington Fails to Act - www.DemandAPlan.org NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sixty-seven family members of victims and survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting today sent a letter...

Asian-American victims of domestic violence rarely seek help from police or health care providers – “an alarming trend” among the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, says a Michigan State University researcher. While cultural barriers can discourage victims from seeking help, there also is a lack of culturally sensitive services available to them, said Hyunkag Cho, assistant professor of social work. That can be as simple as a local domestic violence hotline that...

First-of-its-Kind Survey of 50 States Concludes Lack of Leadership and Funding Keeps Critical Records about Dangerous People Out of National Do-Not-Sell Database Survivors of Gun Violence Testify Before U.S. Senate and Rally in Support of Fix Gun Checks Act NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The bipartisan Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition today released a report showing that ten months after the deadly Tucson, Arizona shooting, states and federal agencies are still...

Only 17 states have submitted more than 1,000 mental health records to database, and more than 1.5 million records are estimated to be missing New state laws enacted to improve submission of records to National Instant Background Check System (NICS) in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre appear to be working WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Mayors Against Illegal Guns: In December 2005, Seung-Hui Cho was found to present "an imminent...

It's easy for American society to label young killers as simply crazy. But new research suggests that a complex array of factors "“ from bullying to lack of parental support to ineffective mental health services "“ are potentially involved when a student turns to violence.The study, co-authored by Michigan State University's Hyunkag Cho, examined the risk factors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings by 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho that left 33 people, including the gunman,...

Failure Leaves More than a Million Mental Health Records Out and Allows Dangerous People to Buy Firearms Firearms Policy Experts and Virginia Tech Massacre Family Members Available for Interview NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, bought a shotgun and passed a background check less than a year after he was rejected from the Army in 2008 for habitual drug use. He should have failed the shotgun background check, but he didn't because his...

The first in-depth look at murder and suicide in the United States shows that personal conflicts are among the top factors in such deaths, as opposed to random violence or other crimes. In both murders and suicides, guns are the most commonly used weapons, according to data analysis from 2007 released on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The pattern that stands out the most is we see a lot of intimate partner violence, mental health problems and substance...

NEW YORK, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three years ago on April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two semiautomatic handguns and several hundred rounds of ammunition, shot and killed 32 people and wounded many more on the campus of Virginia Tech before killing himself. The gun lobby's immediate reaction was to call for permitting the carrying of loaded handguns on college campuses. In the three years since the Virginia Tech shooting, legislation has been introduced in at least...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Please join us at the National Press Club of Friday, January 22nd at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the launch of preeminent Indian American poet Reetika Vazirani's Radha Says. This title is the first in Drunken Boat's international online journal of the arts new list of books and includes poems that have been published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review and Callaloo. One of the most influential poets of her generation, Vazirani...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following yesterday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, leaving 13 dead and 28 injured, two of America's leading national gun violence prevention organizations Freedom States Alliance and the Violence Policy Center--issued the following joint statement: "Our sympathies go to all those affected by this terrible tragedy. "The handguns used in yesterday's rampage shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, demonstrate the deadly firepower available to any...