Jackson, Miss., Turns to Innovative Program to Lower Its Gun Deaths [jjie.org]

Alicia Doktor 3/1/1912:00 PM

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s capital city is becoming a petri dish for an experiment designed to stop an epidemic of gun violence that claimed 84 lives in 2018 and took 16 less than two months into 2019.

If successful, it could serve as a model throughout the South and perhaps the nation.

Uproar over the Jan. 13 shooting death of a pastor as he was unlocking the doors to his sanctuary for Sunday services elicited the usual calls for gun control in a state that touts its open carry laws.

[For more on this story by Justin Vicory, go to https://jjie.org/2019/02/27/ja...ower-its-gun-deaths/]

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