How much murder can you tolerate as a neighborhood? It isn't only a question being asked in Chicago, where a particularly violent night claimed the li...
No issue is more integral to us all than the future of America's children, and the opportunities that our society gives them to succeed. The senseless violence affecting children in America today is abhorrent.
The death of this latest child killed by gun violence happened one day after pro-gun activists heckled Neil Heslin, father of 6-year-old Jesse Heslin, one of the 6-year-olds massacred in Newtown, CT.
A 3-year-old Atlanta girl is dead and her 18-year-old uncle faces charges for reckless conduct and involuntary manslaughter after his gun accidentally...
On Monday night last week, when the U.S. House Of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling, for a moment, Democrats and Republicans wholehearte...
On an unseasonably warm Sunday, at least two children were shot, seven others injured and one killed in shootings on Chicago's South Side. About 4...
A gunshot victim's deathbed identification of his shooter led to the arrest of his killer. Lawrence Stubbs, 19, was gunned down by two men in his Sou...
At Gene's Playmate Lounge at Cermak and Kildare, you can't have a drink unless you're at least 25 years old. Young guys who might be packing pistols c...
When Omar Thornton decided to open fire on his co-workers earlier this week, he used a local product for his killing machine: an SR9 high-capacity pistol from Southport, Connecticut's Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Three men were gunned down in broad daylight outside a building on the South Side this afternoon, witnesses said. The attack happened at about 1 p...
A man who was shot in his mouth on the South Side Monday morning was apparently saved by his tooth--which he spit out along with a bullet. Just befo...
At least 27 people were shot, two fatally, over the long weekend in Chicago, and police are blaming gang violence for more than half of the incidents....
The threats and crimes committed by these "upstanding citizens," as the gun lobby likes to call concealed handgun permit holders, are no surprise.
This is the fourth year that my organization, the Violence Policy Center, has issued the study "Black Homicide Victimization in the United States," and the third time that Pennsylvania has ranked first.
Appomattox County court records show a concealed weapons permit was issued to a Christopher Bryan Speight -- the alleged murderer in yesterday's mass shooting -- three times between 1999 and 2009.
For over two decades a top priority of the gun lobby has been establishing and expanding state laws that allow the carrying of concealed handguns by private citizens. This effort may culminate as early as today.
According to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, gun owners are uniting in "political spontaneous combustion." Ouch.
