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Gun sales spiked sharply over the course of COVID-19 pandemic. From 2016 through 2019, firearm background checks, widely used as an approximation for gun sales trends, were fairly flat, between 25...
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There were 2,414 people on death row in the United States as of April 1, 2022. That figure has dropped every year for two decades. The state with the largest number of men and women on death row is...
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The ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia and growing insurgent violence in Africa have led numerous counties to boost their firepower significantly in recent years, increasing their budgets for...
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The American Civil Liberties Union has for years highlighted the militarization of U.S. police departments. The organization has denounced federal programs that, for decades, have channeled surplus...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2021, a 10.5% increase from the prior year. While the data shows that...
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The nine countries known to have nuclear weapons keep their stockpiles within their national boundaries or loaded on submarines that prowl beneath the waves of the world’s oceans. Or at least, that...
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When it comes to the countries with the most police firepower, size matters. For example, the United States has been channeling billions of dollars of surplus military equipment to thousands of its...
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In the United States, gun ownership is a constitutional right, one that nearly a third of all American adults choose to exercise. But while most of the nearly 400 million civilian-owned firearms in...
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An estimated 665,380 police and sheriff’s patrol officers are employed in the United States, according to May 2021 data. The vast majority of these officers work for local governments, with only...
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Earlier this month, America observed a grim 10th anniversary, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza killed 20 children aged 6- and 7-years old and six adults at...
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The World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. America was not at war with any of the countries where the terrorists lived or trained – at...
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Sanctions against Russia have intensified since Moscow sent troops, armored vehicles, and tanks rolling into Ukraine in February, sparking Europe’s first war since the tumultuous 1990s breakup of...
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The United States has thousands and thousands of sites marked for cleanup by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At the top of this list are 1,333 on the Superfund National Priorities List, or...
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High-profile unlawful killings by police officers in recent years have put American law enforcement under intense public scrutiny. Outrage over abuses of power, most notably the murder of George...
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Today a national historic site in Massachusetts, the Springfield Armory has been at the forefront of U.S. Army’s firearm innovation for nearly two centuries. Among the armory’s inventions was the...
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