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The new blockbuster film by director Alex Garland offers food for thought on the views of one of America’s founding fathers on federalism and gun rights.
The modern Republican Party, with its admiration and emulation of authoritarians worldwide, is more likely to celebrate a US default than work to avoid it.
Two separate bloody incidents over Lunar New Year struck at the heart of the American-Asian community underlining the need to get tougher on weapons.
Much like al-Qaeda and Isis, and their textual literalism that has been tied to a certain reading of the Koran, so gun rights and the violence that inevitably accompanies them have been the results of America’s founding constitutional documents.
US politicians are too distracted by culture wars to address problems such as climate change and global food shortages that will kill far more people than those who die in gun violence.
Just as domestic mass killings are almost always good for gun stock investors in the United States, so foreign wars with US military involvement will for sure boost the share prices of American weapons manufacturers.
- The bill boosts background checks for private sales of guns and make it a crime to recklessly sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from having guns
- The October 25 shooting that killed 18 people and injured 13 others in Lewiston prompted lawmakers to act to prevent future attacks
Hannah Gutierrez, the armourer who loaded the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie ‘Rust’ is headed to prison.
Jennifer Crumbley and her husband James – who bought their son the gun as a Christmas present – were the first parents of a school shooter to be convicted of manslaughter in the US for the actions of their child.
Pedro Romero Perez, who was shot 5 times, says California Terra Garden, owned by Xianmin Guan, knew Zhao had a history of violence but did not take action to keep the victims safe.
A rash of violent incidents has reignited fresh concerns about safety on the biggest US transit network.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty after a two-week trial, following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of western film Rust in 2021.
Pan faces 35 years in prison for shooting Kevin Jiang in the head, chest and extremities in New Haven in 2021.
Conviction brings closure to a cold case mystery that has frustrated the rapper’s family and fans for more than two decades.
Alec Baldwin, a producer and star of the Western film, was charged in January for his role in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Prosecutors accuse Hannah Gutierrez-Reed of being ‘sloppy and unprofessional’, in the first trial over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays have been indicted for second-degree murder over the incident that left one person dead and 22 injured.
Cyndi Lauper’s controversial son was allegedly found with a gun and drugs near the scene of a shooting in New York’s Harlem on February 7, so what else do we know about him?
Three people were taken into custody after a mass shooting triggered panic among crowds of fans celebrating team’s win.
Prosecutors say Jennifer Crumbley had a duty to prevent her son – who was 15 when he killed 4 students in 2021 – from harming others.
The indictment follows a forensic test showing that the actor would have had to pull the trigger for the gun to fire the bullet that killed Halyna Hutchins.
A damning Justice Department report cited critical failures by Texas law enforcement who waited until 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter at a school before finally intervening.
The day before the anniversary of the US Capitol riot, Biden said the 2024 presidential race – a likely rematch with Trump – is ‘all about’ whether American democracy will survive.
The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, 17, a pupil at Perry High School. He was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Under the new law, to take effect at the start of 2024, people cannot carry concealed guns in 26 categories of ‘sensitive places’ including hospitals, playgrounds, stadiums, zoos and places of worship.
Gaston Glock was the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world’s bestselling handguns.
The 11-year-old made an emergency call from a friend’s phone when the student left his device unattended.
Associate professor Naoko Takemaru was in charge of overseeing the Las Vegas institution’s entire Japanese studies programme.
The gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions.
Shooting at the University of Nevada, a short distance from the Las Vegas Strip, was the latest in the United States where gun violence is a part of the fabric of daily life.
A suspect was arrested in the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont, an attack police are investigating as a suspected hate-motivated crime.
In early January, a 6-year-old pulled out his mother’s handgun and shot Abby Zwerner as she sat at a reading table in front of her first-grade class.
The body of Card, an army reservist, was discovered in the woods near the town of Lisbon Falls.
