gun violence

“Red flag” gun legislation will restrict access to people who are in danger of using guns to cause harm, including in domestic violence issues. Opposition voices included here…

“We’ve been having this damn conversation too long,” Walz said.

Details about gun ownership, national school shootings, Minnesota gun deaths, and intimate partner homicides

“If the people who had answered that [911] call could have identified that [my mother] was struggling with mental health, they could have connected her with services that prevented her suffering.”

Suicide, or death by intentional self-harm, has been steadily rising in Minnesota for the past 20 years.

Post–School Shooting Guide, Tech Gaps

If I can be honest in who I am, and the opportunity that I have in this seat, hopefully there is a little girl out there who can hear or see a message and realize that it is a possibility for them — that they are not too broken to do this work. We all deserve to be in this space and make these changes together.

Minnesota Women’s Press conducted a virtual statewide survey to ask Minnesotans about their current fears.

We tend to be bad at assessing risk.

Firearm purchases, Feminist retelling of stories, Trauma-informed response

There have been nearly 80 reported homicides in Minneapolis in 2021, as of October 25. The list below includes 17 gun violence cases in Hennepin County that have someone in custody or sentenced since then, going back to 2019.

According to data collected by the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), between 2005 and 2019, there were 46,961 individuals who had experienced both homelessness in Minnesota and domestic violence.