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  Aurora Theater Shooting Survivor Grapples With Trump's Travel Ban

  Friday, July 20, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Zara Ahmed survived the Aurora theater shooting. But as a Somali-American, she must now confront the Trump administration travel ban.

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  Road to Change Brought Town Hall on Gun Violence to Denver

  Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 12:25 p.m.

  Activists emphasized that race must be part of the discussion.

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  Aurora Theater Attack Victim's Parents Visit Santa Fe, Texas

  Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:37 a.m.

  After the May 18 assault at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, in which eight students and two teachers were killed and thirteen wounded, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, who became gun law reform activists following the murder of their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, during the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, traveled to the scene with the goal of using their experience to help prepare those who lost loved ones for the many traumas to come.

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  Three Billboards Movie Inspires Attack on Mike Coffman and the NRA

  Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:53 a.m.

  Inspired by the acclaimed movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was among twelve people killed in the July 2012 Aurora theater shooting, are behind a campaign to use outdoor advertising to shame Representative Mike Coffman and other opponents of gun-control legislation.

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  Parkland School Shooter's Fans Echo Those of Aurora Theater Shooter

  Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 5:42 a.m.

  Recent reports that Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed seventeen people at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, has been inundated with fan mail and inspired the forming of alternately sympathetic and worshipful social media groups echo some of the disturbing responses that followed the July 20, 2012 Aurora theater shooting, when James Holmes took twelve lives and injured seventy other patrons at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.

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  For Building Warriors, Culture Is Key to Mental Health of First Responders

  Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 8:49 a.m.

  A 2015 survey found that 86 percent of emergency medical services personnel reported critical stress; a job that entails frequent exposure to others’ once-in-a-lifetime tragedies takes a toll. But now programs like Building Warriors are teaching that culture is key to the mental health of these first responders.