Saturday, April 13, 2013
On Saturday, Vienna residents will hold two events to honor victims of gun violence and demand change.
A group of residents from Vienna and other areas of Northern Virginia plan to hold two vigils Saturday to remember victims of gun violence — including those close to home killed in the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech. But organizers hope the events can help demand action on gun violence prevention legislation, including universal background checks. "The Senate will be in its final stages of debate and by standing together we'll make sure our senators know how many people are behind them in passing legislation," organizers wrote on an event page. The events are planned for 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Vienna, 450 Orchard Street NW, Vienna, and 7 p.m. on the Town Green, 144 Maple Avenue East, Vienna. Residents can follow the links to …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Access to guns, mental health covered in Virginia rep's report by the National Science Foundation — topics he says need to stay part of the conversation.
Days after President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to call on Congress and the country to act on gun control, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) has released a report that examines driving forces behind mass shootings, including violent media and mental health issues — topics absent from the president's address, Wolf said. The 41-page report, “Youth Violence: What We Need to Know,” includes several studies compiled by an advisory committee to the National Science Foundation (NSF). It will come before a U.S. House subcommittee later this spring. Among the study's findings: exposure to violent media is a significant risk factor in shootings, but also "one of the easiest risk factors to change,” the report says. Its suggestions…
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In light of Sandy Hook shootings and ahead of Virginia General Assembly kickoff this week, union turns to members to get opinion on guns in schools and what safe schools should look like.
In the weeks since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., politicians and advocacy groups have issued recommendations for how schools can try to prevent the tragedy — which killed 26 students and school employees — from happening again. A voice so far largely absent from those discussions in Fairfax and Northern Virginia: teachers. One of Fairfax County's largest teachers unions is hoping to change that, launching Tuesday a security and schools survey asking its 4,265 members about the use of guns in schools, where the system could use extra security personnel, how safe schools are now and how to make them safer, among other topics. "What I see more and more of is politicians posturing up and taking positions …
Suchada Langley
1:34 am on Monday, April 15, 2013
More than 140 people gathered at two candlelight vigils to remember the victims of gun violence and demanded actions from Congress to pass a commonsense of measures of background checks. The Senate is debating this right now. How would this be too late? more ›