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Want to know where your state falls with firearm deaths?

by Alex Monroe

The Kaiser Family Foundation took the more than 33,000 gun-related deaths from 2013 and charted them out over the 50 states to see who fell where.

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New Facebook feature focuses on suicide prevention (VIDEO)

by Jennifer Cruz

With suicide rates steadily rising over the last decade, Facebook has teamed up with Forefront in an attempt to utilize the 24/7 access of social media to help prevent suicides with a new feature that will go live in a few months.

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CDC Releases Study on Gun Violence: Defensive gun use common, mass shootings not

by Jennifer Cruz

There were five primary areas of interest on which the study focused: The characteristics of firearm violence, risk and protective factors, interventions and strategies, gun safety technology, and the influence of video games and other media.

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