Oct 05 Watch Will Bernie Sanders' gun rights record help Hillary Clinton? By PBS News Hour Hillary Clinton laid out a plan for greater gun control at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, days after a massacre at an Oregon community college. Gwen Ifill talks to Tamara Keith of NPR and Amy Walter of the… Continue watching
Oct 03 GOP hopefuls reiterate opposition to stiffer gun laws By Associated Press Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush and other Republicans declared their opposition to stiffer gun laws Friday in the aftermath of the Oregon college mass shooting. Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch 8:19 Why the U.S. has done almost nothing to stop mass shootings By PBS News Hour The violence in Oregon is one of nearly a thousand mass shootings to have taken place since the Newtown shooting in 2009. For all of the discussion of what can be done to prevent future tragedies, little has changed. What… Continue watching
Oct 02 More than one mass shooting happens per day in the U.S., data shows By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger No matter how you define a mass shooting, one thing is clear: data suggests this brand of violence has grown worse in the United States. Continue reading
Oct 01 Visibly upset, President Obama calls for changes in gun politics after Oregon shooting By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Obama, with some anger in his voice, said the nation has become numb to such shootings and the response has become routine. He called for changes in the nation's gun laws, though it's unclear at this stage whether the changes… Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch Slain journalist's father vows to work for stricter gun control By PBS News Hour WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, paused for a moment of silence a day after cameraman Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker were gunned down by a former co-worker who had been fired in 2013. As memorials pour into the station, Parker’s… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch 4:43 NRA-backed bill aims to keep guns from the mentally ill By PBS News Hour On the cusp of James Holmes's sentencing, Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is sponsoring a bill to help states better report people known to be mentally ill to the FBI database of individuals prohibited from buying guns. The bill has… Continue watching
Aug 03 Chuck Schumer gets his famous cousin Amy Schumer to help him push gun control plan By Amanda Gomez Comedian and actress Amy Schumer is teaming up with her cousin, New York Sen. Charles Schumer, for a new public initiative tackling gun violence. Continue reading
Jul 18 Fifth victim dies from injuries sustained in Chattanooga shootings By Kenzi Abou-Sabe A fifth victim of Thursday's shootings at a military offices recruitment center and a Naval reserve office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, died in the hospital on Saturday as a result of his injuries. Continue reading
Jul 18 FBI: Deadly shootings in Tennessee illustrate lone gunman threat By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed against a vulnerable government target by a lone gunman with apparent terrorist aspirations. Continue reading