lawlessness

The demand for guns is fueled by an atmosphere of danger, made up of gangs, expanding drug markets with high intrinsic levels of violence, high rates of adult violence and fatalities, and cultural styles of gun possession.

Ascribing all of the weight to economic and structural problems and assigning to the government the primary responsibility for curing them is both analytically false and certain to fail.

Over the past decade or so, much has been learned about the nature and causes of youth violence and how to prevent it.

Over the past decade or so, much has been learned about the nature and causes of youth violence and how to prevent it.

Over the past decade or so, much has been learned about the nature and causes of youth violence and how to prevent it.

Recently, assault rifles, handguns, and drugs were confiscated from teens on the Strip near the University of Alabama here in Tuscaloosa.

You might say that violence is the direct result of a combination of biological, social, and psychological circumstances, particularly those that increase exposure to vulnerability, shame, and humiliation.

Children as well as as adolescents do not have to be victims of violence to experience trauma. This trauma can have its origin from multiple sources, for example exposure to gang activity, witnessing a shooting or other violent crimes or the death of a friend or family member.

The drastic increase in you gun violence in the past decade, and its concentrated and severe consequences, suggest to me that it is an epidemic with moral, social, and health ramifications.