Essay: Anger management and guns
US Catholic commentator PHYLLIS ZAGANO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says anger is clearly at the root of mass shootings in the US…
Pro-life or pro-gun?: Shootings expose divisions on gun issue in faith communities
DEEPA BHARATH and HOLLY MEYER, of Associated Press, report on responses among church pastors to the recent spate of mass shootings in the US…
US lawsuit: NRA’s rhetoric spurred deadly synagogue shooting
PittsburghAP The son of a couple killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 worshippers is suing the National Rifle Association, arguing the group’s inflammatory rhetoric led to the violence. Marc Simon, the son of Sylvan and Bernice Simon, filed the wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against the NRA, […]
Trump pulling US out of UN arms treaty, heeding NRA
Indianapolis, USReuters President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups. Trump told members of the gun lobby at an annual meeting he intends to revoke […]
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, […]