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Mass shootings remain on the minds of Americans as society reopens

Colbi Edmonds April 2, 2021
In the last two weeks, over 20 mass shootings took place. Experts, students reflected on the trend.
A 90-foot-long billboard honoring the death of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 high school students killed in Parkland, Florida, in February, was officially unveiled over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston’s Back Bay Thursday. The billboard was designed by Joaquin Oliver’s father, Manuel Oliver. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New Boston billboard designed by Parkland victim’s father broadcasts message that gun laws save lives

Susannah Sudborough November 4, 2018
A new billboard designed by the father of a Parkland, Florida, shooting victim was erected Tuesday over the Massachusetts Turnpike to support gun control.
Massachusetts gun control group probes US leadership with controversial RSVP

Massachusetts gun control group probes US leadership with controversial RSVP

Ludi Wang December 6, 2017

Stop Handgun Violence — a Massachusetts based gun control group — mailed campaign flyers fashioned as invitations Friday to President Donald Trump and nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, urging...

Gun violence billboard on Mass. Turnpike searches for new home after 19 years

Daily Free Press Admin May 21, 2014

The super-sized anti-gun violence billboard stretching along the Massachusetts Turnpike, long an unofficial Fenway Park landmark, will need to relocate by March 2015 due to a property sale. John Rosenthal,...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh proposes tentative gun buyback program

Daily Free Press Admin February 11, 2014

In the wake of January’s eight gun-related homicides and state legislators’ efforts to strengthen state gun laws, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced he is contemplating enacting a buyback program...

Recommendations released to strengthen gun laws in Massachusetts

Daily Free Press Admin February 4, 2014

In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Dec. 14, 2012, the Committee to Reduce Firearm Violence, commissioned by State Rep. Robert DeLeo and led by Northeastern professor Jack McDevitt,...

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