Shootings

Saipan Shooting: Gunman Opens Fire On Pacific Island; 5 Dead

AP | GEMMA CASAS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gu...

Cartoon: Fort Hood

Shan Wells | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver


Shan Wells

Fort Hood soldiers remembered.

Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media


Brian Ross

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

Making Sense of the Senseless

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Parvez Ahmed

Why was Hasan not booted out of the service he so ungratefully and desperately wanted to leave? In the absence of concrete answers, the media is left to speculate.

Fort Hood Tragedy: How You Can Help Right Now

Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact


Thirteen people are dead and 31 are wounded after a horrific shooting Thursday at Fort Hood's soldier processing center. The suspected gunman, Major N...

Fort Hood Shooting - Live Twitter Coverage

HuffingtonPost | Posted 11.05.2009 | Home


Eleven people were killed and 31 wounded in multiple shootings Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the Army said. Read our live updates here...

Pericles Salas Becomes Fourth NYC-Area Cabbie Shot, Killed In 4 months

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York


YONKERS, N.Y. — A cab driver has been shot and killed in Yonkers, the fourth fatal cabbie shooting in the New York City area in four months. Yo...

16 Shot In Baltimore, Including 12 At Cookout

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 08.27.2009 | Home


BALTIMORE — A gunman burst into a backyard cookout held in the memory of two men who'd been shot to death a year earlier, wounding 12 people in ...

Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Josh Horwitz

Far from protecting liberty, insurrectionism deprives American citizens of their freedom.

4 Injured, 1 Slain At Korean Retreat In California

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.09.2009 | Home


TEMECULA, Calif. — Investigators are trying to determine why a resident of a Korean religious retreat that helps the homeless allegedly went on ...

Arthur Delaney

Shooting Rampages May Be Sparked By Recession

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business


Crazed gunmen have killed 57 people in eight separate incidents in the last month, to the general bafflement of everyone except gun control advocates....

Trigger-Happy in America

Cindy Handler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics


Cindy Handler

I start wonder why the NRA hasn't launched a lucrative travel channel show. They could start each segment with "Today's shooting comes to you from..." filling in any given American locale.

Have We Reached the Tipping Point on Guns?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

How many shootings do there have to be in the news before we wonder about the wisdom of allowing just about anyone to get a gun in America? Our gun culture is completely out of control.

The Grinning Skull

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics


Rebecca Solnit

While the media demonized the New Orleans' black population for crimes that turned out not to have happened, they ignored the group of white men who went on a shooting spree across the river.