Mass killings are defined as incidents where four or more people are killed within 24 hours, excluding the perpetrator. While the current numbers appear encouraging, criminologist James Alan Fox of ...

About 82% of this year’s mass killings involved a firearm. Since 2006, 3,234 people have died in mass killings — and 81% of ...

The screams of children echoed in the school gymnasium at Sandy Hook Elementary during a mass shooting that took place in 2012.

It has been a long road to get the U.S. to acknowledge its responsibility to help stop the flow of guns to cartels and criminal operations abroad.

Mass killings in the U.S. have reached their lowest point since 2006, with four deaths in California marking the 17th such incident this year. Experts caution this decline may be a statistical ...

Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told the gathering that the administration still considers combatting gun violence a top issue.

America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...

Each quarter, King County releases its shots-fired report, which recently revealed a positive trend for gun violence in the ...

The United States has a firearm-related homicide rate approximately 26 times higher than that of other wealthy countries. In 2023, nearly 47,000 people died from gun-related injuries, averaging about ...

Violent movies and real-life murders involving guns and young people could be linked, a new study found. The rising number of violent gun scenes in blockbuster movies over the last two decades closely ...

Gun violence is not just a criminal justice issue; it’s a public health crisis and a human rights concern. Every year, more than 45,000 Americans die by firearms, with a majority of these deaths being ...

Guns have been deeply woven into American culture since the nation’s earliest days, tied to traditions of frontier life, self-reliance, and personal protection. The Second Amendment, hunting and sport ...