One year later: On the street with the Gun Crisis Reporting Project
Tara Murtha spends a night on the street with Joseph Kaczmarek of the Gun Crisis Reporting Project for a new Philadelphia Weekly report.
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More reporting honors for Murtha last week; more shooting victims last night
[View the story “More reporting honors for Murtha last week; more shooting victims last night” on Storify] More reporting honors for Murtha last week; more shooting victims last night Storified by #GunCrisis· Sun, Apr 14 2013 06:19:40 We recently reported that Gun Crisis partner Tara Murtha was honored — for the third time — for Distinguished Writing for her work at Philadelphia…
Notable Quotables on Gun Violence in Philadelphia
Tara Murtha reports for Philadelphia Weekly about a recent panel discussion on gun violence in Philadelphia: Physicians for Social Responsibility hosted a presentation this week at the Friends meetinghouse for approximately 100 community members concerned about the causes and impact of gun violence in Philadelphia. One chilling statistic projected on the wall made clear the scope…
NRA launches new advertising campaign targeting black people
While the NRA strives to make a young urban black male the new face of gun rights, that demographic is already the face of gun violence — the vast majority of victims being young black men. In 2008 and 2009, gun homicide was the leading cause of death among black teens, according to a report issued last year by the Children’s Defense Fund.
PA Gun Background Checks Almost Tripled Since Sandy Hook
Tara Murtha reports for Philadelphia Weekly on how gun sales in Pennsylvania are bucking a national trend: According to records published by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), 135,603 background checks for firearms purchases were conducted in Pennsylvania last month. That’s almost triple the number of previous years: 47,456 background checks were…
Philadelphia Weekly: VP Biden Talks Gun Violence at Girard College
Tara Murtha reported on yesterday’s gun safety roundtable with Vice President Joe Biden and philadlephia officials at Girard College for Philadelphia Weekly: Flanked by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and Mayor Michael Nutter, Biden noted that his post-Sandy Hook task force, assembled in December to recommend proposals for stemming gun violence, focused on universal background…
Dueling Ideas on Gun Control in Harrisburg
Last week, hundreds of people gathered inside the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg to call for sensible gun laws in Pennsylvania. The rally was organized by CeasefirePA, a coalition of gun violence survivors and advocates against the flow of illegal firearms.