Gun Politics

Delhi women rush for guns after fatal gang rape

3 Jan 2013

Hundreds of women in Delhi have applied for gun licences following the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman by six men in a bus in the city last month.

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Trigger-happy Shenzhen police cause public concern

14 Dec 2012

Public concern about the abuse of guns by police is increasing, with a newspaper reporting yesterday that police in Shenzhen had been encouraged to "pull the trigger" promptly when required.

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US culture to blame for gun violence

15 Aug 2012

It is now routine for everyone in the US who has access to a microphone or the printed word to ask the question: "Why the mass shootings?" The answers always centre on two reasons. Either there is...

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Liberty doesn't flow out of a gun barrel

25 Jul 2012

Americans' love of guns is something difficult for outsiders to fathom. But repeated mass killings like the one in which a dozen people were gunned down inside a Colorado cinema cast a spotlight...

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Gun laws must be changed

29 Apr 2009

We see it over and over in the news: yet another shooting in an American school or university.

These tragedies take lives and leave the survivors distraught. And yet despite these...

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Cash for guns programme hits its targets amid financial crisis

4 Nov 2008

New York

New York City may be staring down the barrel of a budget crisis, but it isn't going to worry about handing out cash for one thing - guns.

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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On a wing and a prayer

America's and Americans' fascination with guns never ceases to amaze, particularly the belief that, if everyone carried one, the whole nation would be safer.

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Lack of gun control in the US affects people all over the world

I am responding to the letter by Carlton Cash, 'No serious political talks on gun control' (April 22), as I believe that his message is misguided, for several reasons.

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Gun control dead

You can imagine lots of countries where a candidate for the presidency might lie about owning a gun so as not to alienate the voters, but only in the US would he lie and say he does own a gun when...

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'Disconnected' individuals and guns recipe for US-style tragedy

The college shooting in Virginia is the bloodiest of its kind in the history of the United States, with 33 dead and 15 injured.

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No one immune in 'High Noon' America

Most days, it is not at all hard to feel proud to be an American. But on days such as this, it is very difficult.

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US must accept need for tighter gun laws

Americans' dogged attachment to guns claims 30,000 lives each year, but it is only eye-opening tragedies such as the massacre at a Virginia university that prompts widespread questioning of their...

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