gun violence

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. 

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.

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.

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.

A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive.

Veteran rocker Pat Benatar is dropping her most famous song “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” from her setlist as a form of protest against mass shootings and out of respect to the victims and their families.

Arabella Yarbrough, the mother of two nearly killed by Andrew “Tekle” Sundberg before Minneapolis Police snipers gunned him down last week, was filmed raging at Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters after the group hailed him as another victim of police brutality.

Recently leaked security video from the Uvalde school massacre in May shows fully-armed police retreating and holding back.

President Joe Biden reacted to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday, using his death to again condemn “gun violence.”

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have decried the recent mass shooting in Highland Park, IL, calling for the strengthening of gun laws, as well as programs addressing “mental health, family, and cultural factors” behind gun violence.

The Dallas Cowboys have been facing backlash on social media for a recent marketing agreement it reached with Black Rifle Coffee Co.

A GoFundMe has been launched to help a two-year-old boy who lost both of his parents in the horrific Highland Park shooting on July 4.

The suspected gunman in the horrific Fourth of July massacre on Monday was allegedly kicked out of a local synagogue.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Chicago Alderman and mayoral candidate Raymond Lopez stated that gun violence in the city of Chicago has become “lost in the background noise” and stated there hasn’t been the same anger, outrage, and federal involvement for gun violence in Chicago that the shooting in Highland Park has received because it’s “the difference between the frog in boiling water and the frog in water that’s getting slowly and steadily warmer.”

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) issued a statement after the horrific shooting at a July 4th parade in Highland Park near Chicago.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said the media had the full text of the latest gun control bill before the senate had a chance to review it. 

A poll conducted by NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist found that 92 percent of Democrat voters consider it “more important to control gun violence”  than “to protect gun rights.”

The U.S. men’s national soccer team joined the current wave of sports figures advocating for more control via an open letter.

Nine separate shootings occurred in Democrat-run Philadelphia Friday into Saturday afternoon and one of the shootings left a pregnant woman dead.

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that expanding background check requirements for purchasing guns was “on the table” in the Senate negotiations on a gun package.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that regulations on firearms such as assault weapons bans and other kinds of regulations have been shown by research to have an “underwhelming” effectiveness “in actually preventing violence and

President Joe Biden delivered a 20-minute prime-time address about gun violence on Thursday in without mentioning school security.