Gun Violence Shootings Archive
Archives for December 2015


A legal justification doesn’t mean the shooting was okay.




The people who say they’re most worried about terrorism are also more likely to say the solution is for Americans to carry more guns.

He said he had a bomb and that there were radio-controlled explosives stationed throughout the city. He said Sydney was under attack by Islamic State.


“Over and over and over again, through well over a hundred relatives of the fallen, each one equally broken, wrecked by the loss.”


Right now, the federal government is willfully ignorant about guns.


Another mass shooting in America.

Every time there’s a mass shooting, I think about leaving the US.


Cook County state’s attorney announced she won’t file charges.


“These are weapons of war, barely modified and delivered marketed as tools of macho vigilantism.”

This fall, I found myself scanning the room of new students, 25 pairs of eyes, trying to figure out if anyone looked unstable. If anyone appeared angry, too cloistered, too much of a loner.


A clever take on America’s gun laws.


A shocking toll.


“The cell phones in the pockets of the dead students were still ringing when we were told that it was wrong to ask why.”