Mass shootings: What science says about an American epidemic
Who is a mass shooter? And what can we do to stop him or her?
Are the news media doing a good job covering mass shootings?
In this week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we'll explore these questions and also look at a new tool aimed at stopping a different kind of epidemic—firearm suicides.
We talk to Beverly Kingston with the University of Colorado Boulder’s ; Malcolm Graham, the ; Liz Skewes, journalism department chair at CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information and author of an upcoming book on school shootings; and Sara Brandspigel at the Colorado School of Public Health’s , who helped create .
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