US must stem “iron river” of guns flowing to Latin America, activists say
Reuters US guns, many of them exported legally, are flowing into Latin America in an “iron river” ending in the hands of drug cartels and abusive security forces, activists said Monday, calling for greater oversight from US law and federal agencies. More than half of “crime guns” recovered and traced in Central America are sourced […]
Push for reform: Tennessee’s God and guns culture under fire as protests mount in Capitol
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that hundreds of protesters rallied at the Tennessee Capitol this week amid calls for red flag laws and other reforms in the wake of the state’s deadliest school shooting…
Updated: Ex-student shoots dead three children, three adults at Tennessee Christian school
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT)Nashville, Tennessee Reuters A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, […]
Essay: Biden calls for assault weapon ban – but does focus on military-style guns and mass shootings undermine his message?
In an article first published on The Conversation, US political science scholars MELISSA K MERRY and AARON SMITH-WALTER argue Biden’s focus on high-profile mass shootings and the role of assault weapons over other firearms helps explain why so many Americans feel gun laws are doomed to fail…
Essay: How does a child become a shooter? Research suggests easy access to guns and exposure to screen violence increase the risk
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based academics BRAD BUSHMAN and DAN ROMER look at what data reveals…
Essay: Guns at voting sites in the US have long sparked fears of intimidation and violence – yet few states ban their presence
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBERT SPITZER, political scientist and author of ‘The Gun Dilemma’, says the presence of armed individuals at voting sites in the US is adding to concerns over the prospects of election-related intimidation and violence…
Explainer: Are guns illegal in Canada? Key questions answered
Reuters Canada’s government introduced legislation on Monday to implement a national freeze on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns. The new legislation comes just a week after a gunman killed 19 children and two […]
Essay: Most US school shooters get their guns from home – and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up
US experts on firearm violence and firearm injury prevention, PATRICK CARTER, MARC A ZIMMERMAN and REBECCAH SOKOL look at the relationship between school shootings and the access of teenagers to firearms in the home…
US gun makers say Mexico’s lawsuit represents “clash of national values”
Boston, USReuters Gun makers including Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co on Monday asked a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the Mexican government accusing them of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths. The gun manufacturers in a brief told a federal judge in Boston that […]
Essay: God did not give Americans guns. To say otherwise is heresy.
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev SUSAN BROOKS THISTLEWAITE is president emerita and professor emerita of Chicago Theological Seminary, says it wasn’t God who gave Americans guns…