Australia's governments are poised to further tighten what are already some of the world's most restrictive gun ownership ...

Since the beginning of 2017, at least 199 people have died in mass shooting in the United States. A mass killing is generally defined as four or more people killed in a single incident. The mass ...

The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has about 35-50 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns, according to a 2007 report.Gun legislation is generally handled at ...

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As a community lies shattered and the U.S. is left reeling after another school shooting this week, attention is inevitably drawn once again to the country's gun laws. A teenage student and a teacher ...

Washington added to its arsenal of gun-violence prevention laws this past year, but the Evergreen State still has a ways to go before it can claim to be the national leader on firearm regulations.

The debate over gun control in the United States has waxed and waned over the years, stirred by frequent mass shootings in civilian settings. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children ...

We see a lot of statistics about the murder rate in the United States, particularly as part of the debate over gun control. But a Facebook meme making the rounds is contending that the homicide rate ...

Re: “Taxing guns punishes the innocent due to the guilty” (Letter to the editor, Eastbaytimes.com, Oct. 24): There is simply no comparison between vehicles and guns. Guns are in their own category as ...

The numbers don’t point to video games as the problem. What are the root social causes of gun related violence? It's a question the U.S. is asking itself a lot right now. 2012 was a year marked by two ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The shooting in Virginia that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and the shooting in a San Francisco UPS ...