Tristan Bridges

May 4, 2023 | thelancet.com | Tristan Bridges |Tara Leigh Tober |Melanie Brazzell

SummaryBackgroundThe United States experiences more mass shootings than any other nation in the world. Various entities have sought to collect data on this phenomenon, but there is no scholarly consensus regarding how best to define mass shootings.

May 1, 2023 | inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com | Tristan Bridges

Every year since 2013, Gallup has been releasing new data on the size and composition of the LGBT+ identifying population in the U.S. Measuring gender and sexual identities on this scale presents a host of challenges. My sense is that the figures that result are bound to be conservative estimates of the size of the LGBT+ population in the U.S. I aways chart Gallup’s data because I often make use of the figures in some of my courses and find it more engaging to look at figures than tables.

Mar 2, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Melanie Brazzell |Tara Leigh Tober |Tristan Bridges

On November 1, 2013, a young White man entered Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon and over 500 rounds of ammunition. He harbored radical anti-government sentiments and came with the intention of killing TSA agents. He fatally shot the first agent he identified, Gerardo Hernandez, a father of two who had immigrated from El Salvador at 15. In the chaos that ensued, three more people were shot and others were injured.