Gun Violence
A 15-year-old boy accidentally shot his younger brother during a game of ‘Cops and Robbers.’
Police say 14-year-old Jaylen Fryberg wounded multiple victims, including at least one friend of his, before fatally shooting himself in the Marysville school cafeteria.
After a violent holiday weekend during which 11 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in shootings, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Monday that the city's gun sentencing laws aren't strict enough to help police stem city violence.
A gun safety advocacy group is using sex toys to start a conversation around gun safety and responsibility. An ad released Thursday titled "Playthings" shows two young boys running around, playing with large, brightly colored dildos as if they're swords.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Ann Marie Crowell, who lost her son Brian to a gun accident, joins HuffPost Live to discuss the events that led to her son's death.
The Huffington Post interviewed Columbine High School shooting survivor Samuel Granillo who was a 17-year-old junior at the time of the 1999 massacre. Part 1 of 2.
Matthew Warren, the son of evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren who committed suicide last week, killed himself with an unregistered gun he had bought online, the pastor said on Thursday.
Someday a Sandy Hook mother - or a Columbine mother, or an Aurora mother, or a mother from massacres yet to come - will say, like the mother of Emmett Till, "I just want the world to see." And then nothing about guns in this country will ever be the same again.