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‘Chaos and Confusion’: The Campaign to Stamp Out Ballot Drop Boxes

November 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The drop-box at the Flagler County Public Library's early voting site last week. It could only be put to use during voting hours, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And it had to be guarded at all times. (© FlaglerLive)

Drop boxes have become a symbol of the attacks on voter access even though there’s been no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft involving drop boxes that could have affected election outcomes. Up to one-fourth of Florida drop-boxes had to be eliminated due to a new law restricting their use and locations.

In latest Intrusion on Academic Freedom, Tenure Review Could Be Tied to How Professors Teach Race

November 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Watch what you say. (UCDavis)

A controversial law designed to restrict the way certain race-related topics can be taught in Florida classrooms could factor into a new tenure-review process for university professors, under a proposal that higher-education officials will consider next week.

Flagler Schools Have Been Quietly Banning or ‘Removing’ Many Books Since Summer in Bow to ‘Moms for Liberty’

November 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Last year's ban from Flagler schools' library shelves of a single book drew protests and national attention. But many more bpooks have been banned since in the district, without a word, or even the school board necessarily being aware of them. (© FlaglerLive)

The school district has been quietly and steadily banning books from library shelves at Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas High, and at Indian Trails and Buddy Taylor middle schools since summer, FlaglerLive has found, with every title part of a list of challenges from just three members of the group known as “Moms for Liberty.” There is no indication that the challengers are reading the books, but they have been asked to join the district’s review committee.

Elon Musk Is Wrong: Content Rules Preserve Free Speech

October 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Elon Musk claims to champion free speech, but his plans for Twitter could stifle the free exchange of ideas. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Musk’s likely acquisition of Twitter raises concerns that the social media platform could decrease its content moderation. Research shows that stronger, not weaker, moderation of the information ecosystem is called for to combat harmful misinformation. It also shows that weaker moderation policies would ironically hurt free speech.

Will Furry Chooses Sleaze. Again.

October 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

In his heart, he knows she's right. (© FlaglerLive)

Will Furry, the candidate for Flagler County School Board in the race he’s contesting against Courtney VandeBunte, is running a sleazy campaign funded by deceptive PACs and rich in lies and fabrications. Yet he calls it his “journey of faith.”

DeSantis Administration Violated Public Records Law With Snub of Migrant Flight Data Request

October 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the public record law. (© FlaglerLive)

A Leon County circuit judge Tuesday ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration did not comply with the state’s public-records law after an open-government group sought records about a controversial decision to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Flagler County Voters Will Vote on Whether to Retain 11 Judges, Most of Whom They’ve Never Heard Of

October 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The Fifth District Court of Appeal, which has jurisdiction over 13 counties, including Flagler, is headquartered in Daytona Beach, in an austere, ironically prison-like building. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the Nov. 8 ballot, 11 of the 26 boxes where voters will be asked to fill an oval are retention votes in judicial elections for five Supreme Court and six appeals court judges. They’re not races. Voters are merely asked: should so-and-so “be retained in office” or not. It’s the merit-retention system. In the overwhelming majority of cases, voters have no idea who those names, and the judges are invariably retained.

Top Republicans Are Embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Violent Rhetoric

October 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In a recent campaign video, Marjorie Taylor Greene grabbed a rifle and climbed aboard a waiting helicopter, where she tracked down and shot a fleeing hog. (Video screenshot. Courtesy of the Georgia Recorder.)

The lure of violence is not an inherently Republican thing or a Democratic thing; it is a human thing. But at this moment in American history, members of only one party are featuring assault weapons prominently in their campaign ads and even family Christmas cards. Only one party is tolerating and even promoting the likes of Greene, with none daring to condemn her message.

Trump-Appointed Judge Refuses to Block Florida Law Muzzling Gender ‘Instruction’ In Schools

October 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Skirting merits of the law by citing lack of standing, U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger refused to block school districts from carrying out a new state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms. She rejected arguments by parents, students and a non-profit organization.

Federal Judge Refuses to Block Law Banning Payments to Petition Gatherers for Ballot Measures

October 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

It's much harder to find petition-gatherers. (Erin M McCuskey)

The law, passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, made it a crime to continue a longstanding practice of paying petition gatherers based on the number of signatures they collect. Experts have said the changes doubled the cost of getting initiatives on the ballot.

School Boards Now Required to Out LGBTQ Bathrooms and Muzzle Discussions of Gender and Race

October 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Down the drain: New rules issued by the state Board of Education redefine privacy and free speech in public schools. (© FlaglerLive)

County school boards and charter schools will have to follow new requirements for notifying parents about policies involving access to bathrooms and locker rooms, and teachers could be fired if they violate two controversial new laws muzzling discussion of gender identity and racial matters.

At Flagler Tiger Bay, Bluish State Attorney Aronberg Talks Trump Prosecutions, Death Penalty and Election Predictions

October 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg spoke at a Flagler Tiger Bay Club lunch today, facing, front and center, his ideological opposite in Sheriff Rick Staly, who was flanked by County Judges Melissa Distler and Andrea Totten. (© FlaglerLive)

Part stand-up, part roast, part prognosticator, and always the analyst, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, a Democrat, dove right in as he faced a decidedly Republican crowd in his appearance at Flagler Tiger Bay today, talking about Donald Trump and Hunter Biden prosecutions, predictions for the coming election, and his view on the death penalty and the Nicholas Cruz verdict.

DeSantis, Transportation Department and Contractor Sued Over Records on Migrant Flights

October 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Florida Center for Government Accountability filed a lawsuit last week against Gov. Ron DeSantis and the governor’s office and this week against against the Florida Department of Transportation and a state contractor, alleging they did not comply with public-records requests stemming from controversial flights of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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Federal Judge Weighs ‘Stop Woke Act”s Gag on Certain Forms of Instruction About Racism

October 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A North Vietnamese prisoner of war being waterboarded by two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier. Although the Washington Post described waterboarding as common at the time--the paper published the picture in January 1968--the publicity led to one of the U.S. soldiers being court-martialed for his role in the torture. Waterboarding was used by American forces in the Philippines at the turn of the last century and again during the second Bush administration, but never against Americans. (Wikimedia Commons)

A federal judge on Thursday sparred with attorneys about a controversial state law that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms, as university professors argue it violates speech rights.

What the Jan. 6 Committee Could Learn from the Failure of Truth Commissions

October 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol resumes on Sept. 28, 2022

Truth commissions are independent or government groups that investigate political crimes and human rights violations. They have provided a common way of transitioning out of political crises around the world, by hearing testimony of people involved in political violence and producing a comprehensive report with recommendations to the government.

Florida Center for Government Accountability Sues DeSantis Over Migrant Flight Records

October 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Ron DeSantis appearing in Tampa today. (Facebook)

The Florida Center for Government Accountability filed the lawsuit in Leon County circuit court and alleged that the governor’s office did not comply with requests to release a series of records about the migrant flights.

A Passionate, Surgical Rebuke of “Stop Woke” Set at Flagler NAACP’s Freedom Fund Awards

October 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Freedom Fund Awards Luncheon of the Flagler County Branch of the NAACP in Palm Coast balanced matters festive and somber, triumphant and cautionary, and was keynoted by Leon W. Russell, the chair of the NAACP National Board of Directors, who commanded the crowd, weaving the word “woke” throughout his 30-minute talk – a talk that was all the more scathing because Russell didn’t resort to any histrionic tone.

A U.S. Prison’s Scandinavian Make-Over Shows the Way to More Humane Penal System

October 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Prisoners and staff share responsibility for taking care of the fish tank at the ‘Little Scandinavia’ housing unit in a Pennsylvania prison. (Pennsylvania Government Commonwealth Media Services)

At a medium-security prison outside of Philadelphia, a correctional officer-guided team has worked since 2018 to incorporate Scandinavian penal principles into its own institution. Prisoners reported feeling safer and having more positive relationships with staff and other people living in the prisons. They also indicated greater satisfaction with their access to food and the reintegration support available to them.

The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Anti-Putin Human Rights Activists

October 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski is one of three Nobel peace prize winners. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the 70th birthday of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the peace prize has gone to imprisoned Belarus activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.

Karen Barchowski Sells Storied Sally’s Ice Cream in Flagler Beach as She Plots Her Next Revolution

October 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Karen Barchowski has owned Sally's Ice Cream for the past 10 years. She is passing the torch to new owners on Nov. 1. She'd been painting this afternoon when she took a break for a picture. (© FlaglerLive)

Karen Barchowski has owned Sally’s Ice Cream on A1A in Flagler Beach for 10 years. She is selling the business and moving to Vermont, after her embracing outlook fostered through Sally’s a powerful hub of acceptance and diversity. “We found invincible love,” Barchowski says of her years in Flagler Beach.

‘It Makes No Sense,’ Biden Says of Criminalizing Pot as He Pardons Thousands

October 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

President Joe Biden on Thursday pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law and instructed his administration to consider whether cannabis should get a new drug classification.

Flagler’s ‘Victory Lap’ as Circuit’s 1st Black Women Judges Are Celebrated, With Pointed Sidebars

October 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Judge Alicia Washington receiving a ceremonial gavel from Howard Holley. (© FlaglerLive)

Alicia Washington and Joan Anthony were among nine judges of the Seventh Judicial Circuit marking the historic occasions of the two Black judges’ election, along with the accessions of Supreme Court Justice Jackson and Florida Supreme Court Justice Francis, in a “Night of Celebration” at the Flagler County courthouse Monday evening.

Rep. Paul Renner Headlines Flagler Humane Society’s 40th Anniversary as Hanneke Frederick’s Name Looms

October 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Rep. Paul Renner at Sunday's 40th anniversary celebration at the Florida Agricultural Museum with, among others, a very joyful Jen Hobgood of the the ASPCA. (© FlaglerLive)

There was a constellation of stars at Sunday afternoon’s 40th anniversary celebration of the Flagler Humane Society at the Florida Agricultural Museum in Palm Coast, not least among the Paul Renner, the soon-to-be Speaker of the Florida House and Palm Coast resident.

Anti-Poverty Measures Work. Census Data Proves It.

September 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

anti-poverty measures

The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. After Social Security, refundable tax credits like the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) and stimulus payments were the biggest contributors to reducing poverty.

At Flagler Public Library, Freedom Readers’ Club and Other Page-Turners Boldly Defy Book Bans

September 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The Flagler County Public Library takes its safe spaces seriously--for teens, for books that are frequently challenged or banned elsewhere, and for for open discussions. (© FlaglerLive)

Freedom Readers, a book club for teens focused on banned and challenged books, emerged at the Flagler County Public Library in response to the book-banning controversies at the Flagler school board last fall. The club is one of several initiatives countering “what feels like a lot of repression,” in the words of Youth Services Librarian Gemma Rose.

Lawsuit Cites DeSantis Trickery in Seeking to Block Further Migrant Flights

September 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

For migrants, it's been a dog's life. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection,)

Lawyers representing asylum seekers who were allegedly “tricked” into going from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on flights funded by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said Wednesday they are seeking a nationwide injunction to block the governor from luring immigrants to travel across state lines.

DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard Trafficking May Be Illegal

September 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

An immigrant mother and child stand outside a church on Martha’s Vineyard

Transporting consenting migrants who have the paperwork to be in the U.S. is legal. But certain factors – like DeSantis’ intent and knowledge of the migrants’ immigration status – could create potential civil and criminal liability.

He Served 18 Months for a Sex Offense. He’s Re-Imprisoned Anyway, Possibly for Life.

September 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

William Walsh, right, with his attorneys, Ryan Belanger and Brian Smith, in trial Tuesday. (© FlaglerLive)

William Walsh, a 57-year-old former homeless man and sex offender from Bunnell, was committed potentially for life to a prison-like state facility after a trial in Flagler Tuesday, even though he did not commit a new offense and none of his previous offenses ranked him as a predator.

DeSantis Pulls From Segregationists’ Playbook with Anti-Immigration Stunt

September 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

An undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. (Dominic Chavez for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Governors Greg Abbott in Texas and Ron DeSantis in Florida are following the playbook of segregationists who provided one-way bus tickets to Northern cities for Black Southerners in the 1960s. At that time, the fight for racial equality was attracting national attention and support from many white Americans, inspiring some to join interracial Freedom Rides organized by civil rights groups.

Judge Clears Way for Challenge to Law Allowing State to Override Local Police Budget Decisions

September 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The new law restricting protesting in Florida also gives the Florida Cabinet and the governor the power to override local governments' decisions on police budgets. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

A Leon County Circuit judge on Tuesday cleared the way for a lawsuit challenging part of a controversial protest law that gives the governor and Cabinet the authority to override local governments’ decisions about police spending.

Federal Judge Skeptical of DeSantis Suspension of Elected Prosecutor, But No Reinstatement for Now

September 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

andrew warren

A federal judge refused on Monday to reinstate Andrew Warren as state’s attorney for Hillsborough County, saying he first wants to fast-track a trial to better establish the motivation behind Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of the elected prosecutor.

DeSantis Pledges More Migrant Flights Out of Florida at State’s Expense

September 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 75 Comments

desantis migrants pawns

The flights Wednesday mostly involved Venezuelan migrants and included about 10 children. Two planes went from San Antonio, Texas, to the Florida Panhandle community of Crestview before going north.

DeSantis Defends Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Flight But Details of ‘Repulsive’ and ‘Cruel Ruse’ Scant

September 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 78 Comments

Martha's Vineyard Airport in an airport file photo. (Facebook)

Saying undocumented immigrants were sent to “greener pastures,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended Florida’s participation in a pair of flights carrying about 50 migrants, including children, that landed Wednesday at Martha’s Vineyard Airport.

1st a Law Gagging Talk of Gender. Now a Gag Order on Lawsuit Information. Plaintiffs Complain.

September 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Back when gays and lesbians and atheists didn't exist. (Don O'Brien, 1937)

Plaintiffs challenging a Florida law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools are asking a judge to reverse an order stalling their ability to gather information in the case, arguing that the law is being used throughout the state to “censor any positive or supportive reference to LGBT people.”

Can A ‘Christian’ Wedding Website Designer Deny Service to Same-Sex Couples?

September 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Love, actually. (© FlaglerLive)

Lorie Smith designs websites. She intends to begin designing wedding websites and is unwilling to create them for same-sex couples, saying it would go against her Christian beliefs. Under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, though, it is discriminatory and illegal to refuse services to someone based on “disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry.”

Federal Judge Clears UCF Prof Robert Cassanello to Sue Over DeSantis’s ‘Stop Woke Act’

September 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The University of Central Florida's Robert Cassanello. (Facebook)

Cassanello, a history professor at UCF, and other plaintiffs, including public-school teachers and a student, filed the lawsuit in April after DeSantis signed the law (HB 7), arguing that it violated First Amendment rights and was unconstitutionally vague.

In 4th Legal Challenge Against DeSantis’s ‘Stop Woke Act,’ USF Professor and Student File Suit

September 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Ron DeSantis could read an errant K into that. (USF Facebook)

In a 91-page complaint, lawyers for USF associate professor of history Adriana Novoa, student Samuel Rechek and the First Amendment Forum at University of South Florida raised a series of arguments that the law violates speech rights.

Who Will Rescue Our Tender Youth from Deviant Professors and their Noisome Notions?

September 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Pugh Hall at UF hosts the Bob Graham Center, among other programs. (Spohpatuf via Wikimedia Commons)

Give it up, wokester profs: Ron DeSantis will no longer tolerate your anti-American spin on our history, your critical race theorizing, your LGBTQ weirdo agenda, and your communist indoctrination of our kids in Florida’s great state universities.

What in Jesus’s Name? Saving the Savior from Christian Nationalism.

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

false prophets church state

In their zeal to stoke the fires of a culture war, conservatives have drafted Jesus into their army, with some proudly espousing Christian nationalism, which combines two character traits: religious zealotry and fascism. Meanwhile charlatan theologians give the politicians religious cover enough so that they can be assured that Jesus would vote Republican.

70% of Flagler County Students Fail Civic Literacy Test, 63% Fail Across Florida in Exam’s 1st Year

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where Lt. Jack Robinson, who became known as Jackie Robinson, the trail-blazing baseball superstar, was stationed in 1944.

Just 30 percent of Flagler County students know the purpose of a constitution, understand the separation of powers, the concept of the rule of law, the reasons colonists rebelled against Britain, the Supreme Court ruling that ratified Jim Crow or what FDR meant by a New Deal. Students in a U.S. government course are required to take the new exam that covers everything from landmark Supreme Court cases to influential documents in American history to basic principles about how government functions.

Ex-Judges, Prosecutors, Police Chiefs and Legal Scholars Lambast DeSantis Suspension of State Attorney

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

ron DeSantis power

More than 100 legal scholars and dozens of former judges, prosecutors and police chiefs are decrying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, arguing that the move runs counter to professional standards, sets a dangerous precedent and violates the constitutional separation of powers.

Florida Sets Limits on How Much Medical Pot Doctors May Order for Patients

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

medical marijuana supply limits in florida

The highly anticipated emergency rule sets a 70-day total supply limit of 24,500 mg of THC for non-smokable marijuana and establishes dosage caps for different routes of administration such as edibles, inhalation and tinctures.

Federal Judge Urged to Halt Law Muzzling Instruction on Gender and Sexual Orientation

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

don;t say gay law federal judge

The 26-page motion contends that the law, passed this year by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, “was enacted with the purpose to discriminate and has the effect of discriminating against LGBTQ+ students and those with LGBTQ+ family members.”

Flagler Voters’ Message to Poison Peddlers

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 90 Comments

From left, Janet McDonald, Jill Woolbright, Ed Danko, Joe Mullins, Will Furry and Christy Chong. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler voters made damn sure that white nationalists, bigots and liars like Joe Mullins, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald had a short and embarrassing shelf life. If Flagler is solidly conservative, it remains sanely, moderately so for now, even for a one-party county with just three Democrats among 33 elected officials on six government boards.

Anti-Abortion Extremism Is Scaring Voters. It Should.

August 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kansas is proving more centrist than anti-abortion Republicans imagined. (© FlaglerLive)

Our country may be divided on the issue of abortion. But when it comes down to it, most Americans believe that it’s a pregnant person’s right to decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy. That’s not only a blue-state attitude — it’s just as true in conservative states like Kansas.

Nightmare Over

August 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

The lame-duck commissioner at a meeting today. (© FlaglerLive)

As we reflect on Flagler County’s resounding rejection of the bigotry, lies and posturing of its County Commission Chairman Joe Mullins, Steve Robinson—a board member of FlaglerLive—weighs in on FlaglerLive’s coverage of this man.

Latest Lawsuit Against Obamacare Could End Free Preventive Healthcare for 150 Million Americans

August 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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More than 150 million Americans now have access to scores of preventive health measures at no cost, sparing many from illness and catching diseases early for others. They no longer will, if the latest GOP-backed effort to undo Obamacare is successful.

Federal Judge Blocks Parts of DeSantis Anti-‘Woke’ Law Muzzling Race-Sensitivity Training at Work

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

desantis anti-woke act

The employment-related part of the law lists eight race-related concepts and says that a required training program or other activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”

Do Some Flagler Churches Lack Faith?

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Some of those angels are weeping. Detail from a diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment, sculpted of Elephant ivory probably in Paris between 1260 and 1270, from the Cloisters Collection, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. (© FlaglerLive)

Over the weekend pastors at at least two Flagler County churches, New Way Church and Parkview Church, explicitly endorsed three candidates for the Flagler County School Board. Rabbi Merrill Shapiro questions why they have broken their contract with the federal government.

Easy Access to Guns Contributes to America’s Youth Suicide Problem

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Between 2011 and 2020, the most recent decade for which data is available, 14,763 children ages 5-17 died by suicide in the U.S. – a rate of approximately four deaths every day. Over 40% of these suicides involved a firearm. The great majority of guns involved in youth suicides come from the victim’s home or the home of a relative.

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