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In top news this week, a police officer in Brooklyn Center, northwest of Minneapolis, fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, inflaming already raw tensions between police and community members in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial.

And rather than federal gun control laws, write researchers Zach Lang and Jennifer Selin, policies that focus on violence prevention at the community or individual levels may be more effective at preventing mass shooting deaths.


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Researchers: Community violence prevention initiatives effective at curbing mass shootings
By Zach Lang and Jennifer Selin 
A new analysis suggests that Americans who want to make mass shootings less frequent and deadly may want to think beyond gun control legislation
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The same events and conditions that led to crime epidemics in the past are occurring now
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