Gun Violence

The details of one of the more gruesome recent everyday mass gun murders invite us to consider gun control and gun possession from a new perspective.

The US government should be making it more difficult to sell weapons - at home as well as abroad.

The violent, anti-authoritarian rhetoric from the recent Las Vegas shootings is far from fringe. In fact, it's the primary message promoted by the gun industry and the NRA.

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

After mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually …

Two Congressional Democrats are unveiling legislation this morning that would restart the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's gun violence research efforts.

Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment includes the right to bear arms in self defense, guns rights advocates, led by the NRA, have challenged …

Notorious white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller has been charged with killing three people at two Jewish community sites in Kansas. Miller has openly railed against Jews and African Americans …

A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war.

In Temescal, new residents have hired private security firms, whose patrolmen often engage in tactics of racial profiling, to patrol the area.