Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 6:00 PM
A rare event occurred on Capitol Hill at the end of 2013: Republicans and Democrats agreed on a sensible, if modest, measure to continue regulating guns made from plastic. Now...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM
“This person was prepared today to come in, this person was prepared to shoot people,” a deputy police chief said.
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Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 3:14 PM
Eight people, including two women in their 40s, were wounded Thursday in city shootings. The last shooting during the 24-hour period wounded a 16-year-old boy in the Washington Park neighborhood...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 12:19 PM
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:43 AM
Gun violence remains a highly controversial issue in the wake of school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and other communities. At such times, politicians seem compelled to offer the public solutions.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:31 AM
The nation’s contentious debate about guns came here this weekend, to a small, nondescript South Side park in a city where violence is rampant and the homicide count is escalating....
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM
CHICAGO — At least nine people were killed and 45 others were wounded over the weekend in shootings, an ugly turn for the nation's third-largest city as it made progress stemming the murder...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 11:01 AM
In the two years since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., there have been at least 700 mass shootings — defined as involving four or more victims — across...
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Monday, June 11, 2018 at 8:37 AM
Laura Arnold of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation announced at a Forbes Forum on philanthropy that the foundation plans to build a $50 million fund to support gun violence...
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Monday, May 28, 2018 at 1:13 PM
One reason Americans in their late teens are 82 times more likely to be murdered with guns than their peers in other advanced nations is simply that we are awash...
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