Leigh Paterson
Email: lpaterson@insideenergy.org; leighpaterson@rmpbs.org
Leigh Paterson was raised in New Jersey, graduated from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and then taught English at a culinary high school in France. Leigh then got her Master's in Broadcast Journalism from the S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and then moved to Washington D.C. in 2009. After spending two years as a producer at CanadianTV's Washington bureau, Leigh left to freelance. Since then, as a one woman show, she has reported for TV and radio from across the country for BBC News, BBC World Service, PRI's the World, ABC-Univision, Agence France Presse, and CBC News.
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A new report concludes that 鈥渞igorous research鈥� examining the effects of many state-level gun policies is 鈥渧irtually nonexistent.鈥� -
Many gun dealers say they are seeing a number of first-time buyers. Long-time gun owners from across the U.S. are helping the newcomers learn to handle firearms safely in a time of social distancing. -
Many gun dealers report an influx of new customers taking home a deadly weapon for the first time. In response, long-time gun owners from across the country are helping these newcomers get some safety training in the age of social distancing. -
Domestic violence offenders generally aren鈥檛 allowed to have firearms, but many still do. In Denver, a new investigator is searching them out. -
After police shot and killed a young black man in Colorado Springs in August, the community is grappling with the aftermath and what to do about it. -
After a mass shooting, resources pour into the community to help victims and survivors cope. As these incidents continue to unfold, the grim infrastructure that springs up around them is growing larger and more sophisticated. -
As kids across the country head back to school for the year, the question of how to keep students safe is constant and ever-evolving, especially when it comes to mass shootings. One recent active shooter training at a school in northern Colorado focused on three actions: evacuate, barricade, and fight. -
People are hotly divided about many gun restrictions 鈥� but not on extreme risk protection orders. They allow police to temporarily take guns from people seen to be a risk to themselves or others. -
While the circumstances of every mass shooting are unique, the perpetrators of the recent shootings in Ohio an Texas fit a consistent story: white men with access to guns committing violence in the name of real or perceived grievances. -
Victims of what is known as domestic homicide, mostly women, are at higher risk in places with higher concentrations of guns, the research says.
