6 days ago · ATLANTA (AP) — A day after Georgia Republican House Speaker Jon Burns unveiled school safety legislation, Democrats and families from Apalachee High School said they want more — namely, gun safety laws.. Both efforts to curb the gun violence come months after a mass shooting at Apalachee, the school northeast of Atlanta where a 14-year-old boy stands accused of killing two teachers and two ...

Jan 29, 2025 · COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder charges and will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole, a prosecutor said.. Francisco Oropeza, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty to capital murder of multiple ...

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence. Definitions vary, with no single, broadly accepted definition. [1][2][3] One definition is an act of public firearm violence—excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization—in which a shooter kills at least four victims.

Jan 28, 2025 · CNN reports mass shootings based on data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun violence in the United States. CNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as one that...

Dec 17, 2024 · Three people are dead after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, a Madison, Wisconsin, campus for grades K-12. A teacher and a teenage student were killed, police said. Officials said...

Sep 23, 2024 · Four people were killed and 17 others were injured when multiple shooters opened fire Saturday evening in a bustling entertainment district in Birmingham, Alabama, in what police now believe was a...

May 26, 2022 · In the United States, gun violence incidents are on the rise. In 2021, nearly 21,000 people were killed by firearms (not including suicides), according to the Gun Violence Archive, an online...

Guns were the leading cause of death among children & teens (ages 1-17), accounting for more deaths than car crashes, overdoses, or cancers. 1 While the burden of gun violence remains high, there are evidence-based, equitable solutions to prevent gun violence.

Jan 24, 2023 · FBI agents arrive at a farm Tuesday where a mass shooting occurred Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The suspected gunman was an employee at one of the two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, Calif.,...

May 26, 2022 · Joe Biden has called on Americans to turn their "pain into action" after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 students dead.