gun violence

“Healing physically from a shattered femur was a lot easier than dealing with the emotional turmoil,” says Patience Murray, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016, which killed 49 people and injured 53. As part of her healing process, she ultimately forgave the shooter to stop fixating on him and focus on living with love.

Seat belts, airbags and other safety features were added to cars after many people were dying in crashes. The same approach should be taken to guns to help curb the nation’s gun violence, Dr. Jonathan Metzl says.

Chicago police say that at least one person has been killed and five others have been wounded in shootings across the city this Memorial Day weekend.

The man suspected of opening fire in Times Square earlier in May, injuring three people including a 4-year-old girl, was returned to New York to face charges after fleeing to Florida with his girlfriend in the aftermath of the shooting.

Police in Colorado are investigating what led a gunman to open fire at a birthday party inside a trailer park home, killing six adults before he took his own life.

The fatal shooting of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams in a Homan Square McDonald’s drive-thru has reignited the conversation about what can be done to protect children in Chicago from gun violence. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Police say an employee shot three workers inside an office at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

One person has been killed and at least eleven others wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend.

Police said the former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally purchased the two assault rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent that.

Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at the hands of police in America.

President Joe Biden on Friday offered his condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, and reiterated his alarm about the “epidemic” of gun violence in the U.S. and the need for stricter control measures.

Police responded to reports of a possible gunman at Austin-East Magnet High in Knoxville, Tennessee, Monday afternoon.

Rows and rows of white bouquets arranged on the National Mall this week honor victims of gun violence.

On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a memorial on the National Mall featuring 40,000 flowers that represent the Americans who die from gun violence each year.

A student opened fire on officers responding to a report of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday, and police shot back, authorities said. The student was later pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting wounded an officer and comes as the community reels from off-campus gun violence that has left three other students dead this year. Police…

Biden’s executive actions include directing the DOJ to craft a rule addressing the spread of “ghost guns” and publish model red-flag legislation for states.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden noted that gun violence kills 106 people every day in this country and costs the nation $280 billion a year.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a series of executive actions that would both limit self-assembled “ghost guns” and make it easier to flag people who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase a firearm.