After two mass shootings, can Serbia rid itself of guns?
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters After Serbia was rocked by two mass shootings in two days earlier in May, Branko, 54, surrendered his unlicensed arms under a government amnesty: four assault rifles, nine handguns, eight grenades and many boxes of ammunition. The huge cache of weapons handed over by just one veteran of the wars that tore apart […]
Essay: After mass shootings like Uvalde, national gun control fails – but states often loosen gun laws
In an article published on The Conversation, CHRISTOPHER POLIQUIN, a professor at UCLA who has researched gun policy, looks at what’s happened legislatively in the past after mass shootings – and why we should look beyond Washington for action on gun policy…
COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?
MICHELLE R SMITH, of Associated Press, reports from the US that the sheer numbers of deaths – caused by everything from from COVID-19 to mass shootings – has some grappling with the question of whether mass death become accepted in the US…
US gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election
New York City, USAP A leading gun control advocacy group has enlisted more than a dozen religious leaders to boost voter turnout this fall in support of candidates who support measures to prevent gun violence. Everytown for Gun Safety, which expects to spend $US60 million on this year’s elections, is forging its interfaith effort amid […]
Ten dead after gunman opens fire at US school
Ten people, mostly high school students, have been killed and a similar number wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Texas school. In the deadliest US school attack since the shootings in Florida in February in which 17 died, the gunman allegedly walked into an art class at Santa Fe High School, near Houston, […]