gun violence

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) Gun Violence Prevention Task Force (GVPTF) issued a report Monday calling for a ban on “assault weapons,” a waiting period on all gun sales, and numerous other controls.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday tried to score a few political points from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, quoting “Chinese analysts” who said the killing proved “solutions to gun violence still remain out of reach.”

The August 27 Minneapolis Catholic school shooting capped 24 hours of gun violence that had already left innocents dead in the city before the trans shooter targeted schoolchildren. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara stated that “The overwhelming majority of the time, people that are committing crimes with guns do not purchase them legally, they are not lawfully in possession of

VIENNA (AP) – Police in Austria said a man was fatally shot and a woman seriously wounded on Sunday morning by an assailant who took his own life. The shooting happened in the town of Traiskirchen, 32 kilometers (20 miles)

Five people were shot in Washingont, DC, Friday night in a “dispute between known parties,” according to the Metropolitan Police Department. 

More than 1,000 people were shot — fatally and non-fatally combined — in Democrat-run Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during 2024.

Houston, Texas, police said a lawyer was fatally shot by an angry McDonald’s customer on Saturday after intervening to calm the man down.

A 16-year-old New York City boy was fatally shot in the head in a brazen daylight attack by a bike-riding gunman.

A young Alabama mother was allegedly abducted before being tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed by a group of eight suspects in a horrific attack recorded by the perpetrators.

Former Trump administration official Mike Gill, who was shot during a carjacking spree on the 900 block of K Street Northwest in Washington, DC, has died. He was 56.

The Czech Republic came to a standstill Saturday as the country observed a minute of silence for the victims of a mass shooting in Prague.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) used a post on X Thursday to claim that gun violence is the number one killer of children in America. 

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Bernalillo County, New Mexico Sheriff John Allen (D) criticized New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) for her declaration of a health emergency to ban carrying firearms in public and stated that New Mexico law

Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin has launched an appeal to Catholics to voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment rights by refusing to bear arms.

Two 2-year-olds were wounded in separate shootings that occurred just hours apart in Chicago on Sunday evening, ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reported. 

A study published Tuesday finds over half of the people living in gun-controlled Chicago will witness a shooting by the time they are 40 years old.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on his show “Morning Joe” that there was “a sickness in the the state of Texas” led by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) while reacting to a mass shooting in Allen, TX on Saturday and migrants being killed by an SUV in Brownsville, TX on Sunday.

A flower shop in Nashville refused to serve a Republican event and has urged other businesses to follow suit, citing the recent shooting at a Christian school.

Football concussions have now been fingered as a possible cause for the shooter suspected of killing four and injuring nine.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called on Republicans to spend less time on the banning of books in schools and more time on gun violence. 

A 26-year-old man was arrested by Swedish police for manufacturing automatic firearms, using a 3D printer to create components.

A CBS News report on a mother who killed herself amid struggles with bi-polar disorder indicates that upwards of 65 percent of annual gun deaths are suicides rather than gun violence. 

Surveillance video shows seven people being shot and killed Tuesday after a man who lost at a game of pool allegedly returned to the pool hall to kill those who made fun of him for losing.

CLAIM: On Wednesday Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said, “We have more people in America that have died in my short lifetime due to gun violence than in every single one of our wars.” VERDICT: False.

A man tied to criminal gangs was shot dead in a notroious Swedish no-go zone on Christmas day, as the country sets a fatal shootings record.

Police indicate Friday’s shooting at the Mall of America occurred around 7:50 p.m. after two groups of teens got into a fight in Nordstrom.

The Guardian pointed to research on Friday which claims the climate crisis may explain increased gun violence.

FOX 5 reports that gunshots erupted Saturday around 8 p.m. following a “dispute between a group of teenagers and young adults” near Atlantic Station, in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Former Philadelphia sheriff’s deputy Samir Ahmad is facing charges of trafficking firearms, two of which were used in the September 27, 2022, attack on football players following a scrimmage between Roxborough High School and Northeast High School.

At least two gunman opened fire on football players following a scrimmage between Roxborough High School and Northeast High School on Tuesday afternoon.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Democrat-run Philadelphia witnessed 750 shootings during the summer of 2022 alone. 

The Chicago Fire TV series experienced its second brush with gun violence in less than a week Monday when a man was shot in the head near the show’s production site.

A gun bill formed in response to the deadly Alec Baldwin shooting on the set of “Rust” failed to pass in California after discussions stalled between the Motion Picture Association and Hollywood labor unions.

Former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne will be moving back to his home country of Britain after becoming “fed up” with gun violence. 

Podcast superstar Joe Rogan called out Hollywood hypocrisy last week for pushing anti-gun messaging while glorifying gun violence in movies and television.