US gun violence

US Senate passes first gun safety bill in over three decades

A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the US Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defense.

3 killed in Maryland factory shooting

An employee opened fire at a manufacturing business in rural western Maryland on Thursday, killing three coworkers before the suspect and a state trooper were wounded in a shootout, authorities said.

Gun violence in the US: Bullets, politicians and corporate lobbyists

Even the children who have never had a shooting at their own school are not free from the damage.

"Covered herself with friend’s blood, pretended to be dead"

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

Shooting tragedy shows the fault lines of US gun policy

Stricter gun law is the only solution to such violence

Teen who killed 19 Texas school kids, bought guns on 18th birthday

Salvador Ramos, the teenager who murdered at least 19 children after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, bought the guns on his 18th birthday.

Americans must pressure Congress to pass sensible gun laws: Biden

Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday after the killing of at least 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school shooting.

Guns leading cause of deaths of US children, teens in 2020: Study

More children and teenagers in the United States were killed by guns than any other cause in 2020 year, according to a mortality analysis by researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

June 24, 2022
June 24, 2022

US Senate passes first gun safety bill in over three decades

A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the US Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defense.

June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022

3 killed in Maryland factory shooting

An employee opened fire at a manufacturing business in rural western Maryland on Thursday, killing three coworkers before the suspect and a state trooper were wounded in a shootout, authorities said.

June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022

Gun violence in the US: Bullets, politicians and corporate lobbyists

Even the children who have never had a shooting at their own school are not free from the damage.

May 28, 2022
May 28, 2022

"Covered herself with friend’s blood, pretended to be dead"

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022

Shooting tragedy shows the fault lines of US gun policy

Stricter gun law is the only solution to such violence

May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022

Teen who killed 19 Texas school kids, bought guns on 18th birthday

Salvador Ramos, the teenager who murdered at least 19 children after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, bought the guns on his 18th birthday.

May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022

Americans must pressure Congress to pass sensible gun laws: Biden

Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday after the killing of at least 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school shooting.

April 23, 2022
April 23, 2022

Guns leading cause of deaths of US children, teens in 2020: Study

More children and teenagers in the United States were killed by guns than any other cause in 2020 year, according to a mortality analysis by researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.