Gun violence
4 Jul 2022
A gunman killed three people and wounded several others in a shooting at a busy Copenhagen mall on Sunday as panicked shoppers said they ran for their lives.
11 Jun 2022
Thousands of people took to the streets in the United States on Saturday to push for action on the devastating gun violence plaguing the country, where Republican politicians have repeatedly
6 Jun 2022
At least 10 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded in four shootings across the United States this weekend, as lawmakers struggle to respond to the country's long-running epidemic of gun violence.
3 Jun 2022
US President Joe Biden on Thursday made a fervent appeal for lawmakers to pass tougher gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons, to curb a scourge of mass shootings turning American communities into "killing fields."
1 Jan 2021
Demonstrators marched through the frigid streets of Chicago Thursday in memory of victims of gun violence, which rose dramatically in the third-largest US city in 2020.
3 Sep 2019
A 14-year-old boy shot and killed all five members of his family in the US state of Alabama and then called the police and confessed to the crime, local law enforcement said Tuesday.
23 Aug 2019
Gamers at the industry's biggest fair in Europe have taken aim at US President Donald Trump's assertions that violence in video games was partly to blame for recent mass shootings.
5 Aug 2019
US President Donald Trump on Monday told a nation mourning the death of 31 people in two-weekend mass shootings that he rejected racism and white supremacist ideology, moving to blunt criticism that his anti-immigrant rhetoric fuels violence.
5 Aug 2019
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Monday for the United States to "control the indiscriminate sale of weapons" after a shooting in Texas left eight Mexicans dead.
4 Aug 2019
Two mass shootings in the United States have left 29 people dead within 24 hours, the latest such attacks in a nation torn over how to tackle gun violence.
27 Jun 2019
Queen of pop music, Madonna has released the video for "God Control", one of the tracks on her recently released album, "Madame X". The graphic video is leaning towards the controversial side as it features graphic scenes of gun violence and people being gunned down at a nightclub. It begins and ends with Madonna typing…
11 Nov 2018
As earlier reported, gunshots were fired on the set of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine’s music video with Kanye West and Nicki Minaj last week Thursday. In a new development, a surveillance video has surfaced and shows the gunmen arriving and firing shots at the Beverly Hills estate where the video shoot was taking place. The footage…
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