Gun Violence
A record number of mass shootings in the US has sparked a passionate new call for gun control reform.
Six Columbine survivors describe reliving the trauma of school shootings, over and over again.
A suspect with an “infatuation” with the Columbine school shooting was reportedly found dead.
Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott weren’t just victims — they became part of a bigger narrative, with far-reaching effects.
Reporting on shootings in Parkland, Pittsburgh, and Annapolis received Pulitzer Prize honors this year.
The vote came just weeks after the Christchurch mosque shootings.
The rarity of life sentences may be strange by US standards, but it’s typical in much of the developed world.
The city council acted in response to last year’s synagogue shooting.
Two Parkland survivors have ended their lives.
Their tragic deaths highlight the lingering trauma left by gun violence.
The jury took less than four hours to deliberate.
The US’s unique politics and political system make it much harder for America to take similarly swift action.
The shooter wants notoriety — and the prime minister is denying him that.
An attack on a tram in the Netherlands left at least three people dead and five wounded. Dutch police have now arrested a suspect.
At least 50 people have been killed in what the New Zealand prime minister called a “terrorist attack.”
New Zealand’s gun laws are strict compared to America’s, but there are gaps.
The country’s prime minister and attorney general have mentioned banning semiautomatic firearms, but it’s far from a done deal.
Despite the fact that its vocal anti-gun stance has caused sales to decline.
The study lines up with other research linking weaker laws and higher levels of gun ownership to more gun deaths.
The loophole let a white supremacist obtain a gun he used to kill nine people at a predominantly black church in 2015.
Sanders was hit hard for his position on guns in 2016. He’s trying to avoid that in 2020.
The research, however, suggests that Congress should go even bigger.
At least five people were killed and multiple others were injured at the Henry Pratt Company building.
It’s a familiar pattern.
America can prevent shootings. But it has to come to grips with the problem.
What we know and don’t know so far about the high school shooting in Santa Fe.
Mass shootings are still a regular occurrence in America.
Inside the online group that treats a racist killer like a saint.
The research increasingly suggests that universal background checks aren’t enough to confront gun violence.
It’s the guns. The guns are the problem.
Five people were killed at a SunTrust bank branch, and a 21-year-old suspect is in custody.
Jazmine Barnes’s family have said that they believe her death was racially motivated.
It led to stronger gun laws. But it also may have caused a longer-term shift in America’s gun politics.
More than a year after the Las Vegas mass shooting, bump stocks are officially set to become illegal.
Suicides drove an increase in gun deaths from 2016 to 2017.
A database, going back to 1970, shows there were more incidents and more deaths in 2018 than any other year on record.
A very minor win for gun control.
The shooting of Emantic Bradford shows how gun rights don’t protect black Americans from police violence.
The majority of mass shootings are related to domestic or family violence. But simple policy changes could save lives.
Multiple people, including a police officer, were killed.
Psychotherapy, antidepressants, summer jobs, and other non-gun control ways to prevent gun deaths.