Stories tagged: "gun violence"


NC college students met with President Biden this week to call for gun reforms. (Image via Sen. Natalie Murdock's Twitter)
Good News Friday: NC Students Talk Gun Reform with President Biden

Our weekly roundup of happy news in NC goes to the White House. Plus: Pumpkin patches are finally opening, and social media reunites a woman with her “guardian angel.”

Shannon Watts, founder emerita of Moms Demand Action, a group working to stop gun violence, told The Washington Post that the creation of an Office of Gun Violence Prevention is “a significant turning point” for the gun safety movement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden Announces First-Ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

Shannon Watts, founder emerita of Moms Demand Action, a group working to stop gun violence, told The Washington Post that the creation of an Office of Gun Violence Prevention is “a significant turning point” for the gun safety movement.

Students from UNC-Chapel Hill and NC A&T State, the sites of recent shootings, held a rally outside the General Assembly on Tuesday demanding that lawmakers pass tougher gun laws. (Photo by Michael McElroy/Cardinal & Pine)
‘Sick of Thoughts and Prayers’: Students Press Lawmakers on Gun Violence

Students from across North Carolina held a rally to warn lawmakers that the ‘lockdown generation’ would vote them out of office without meaningful action on guns. 

Flowers lay under a boarded up window at Caudill Labs on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, after a graduate student fatally shot his faculty adviser. A bullet hole could be seen earlier Tuesday in the bottom left corner of that window. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)
Why the Shooting at UNC-Chapel Hill Is Different for Asian Americans

When people of color are accused of committing high-profile crimes, their community tends to bear the blame for it too. It’s the same way in the UNC shooting.

Law enforcement officers search for a person listed as 'armed and dangerous' on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Monday afternoon, Aug. 28, 2023. (Kaitlin McKeown/News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Here’s How to Get Help After the UNC Chapel Hill Shooting

The Chapel Hill shooting adds to the seemingly endless examples of national gun violence and the trauma they can cause. There are resources for anyone struggling with the effects, health officials say.

Law enforcement respond to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, after the university locked down and warned of an armed person on campus. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)
Faculty Member Fatally Shot in UNC-Chapel Hill Building, UNC Students and Staff React

North Carolina's flagship university was locked down for several hours Monday after a shooting at the campus chemistry labs. A suspect has been arrested.

Paranoia and Guns Mix Together in New Wave of Shootings

Knocking on a door, turning your car around in a driveway, or chasing a ball into your neighbor’s yard can get you shot now, apparently.