Gun Control

Is gun control inherently, and inevitably, a cultural issue? What makes it a cultural issue?

The fatal shooting of 49 people at a Florida nightclub on June 12, 2016 is the latest in a long series of mass killings to restoke the national debate over gun ownership, with the Senate doing battle over the issue during the week after the tragedy.

Joseph Heath, a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto, published a penetrating meditation last week on the ways ideology can distort sincere attempts at social-scientific explanation.

Debate: is gun control a social issue?

Washington's weapons trade deals in the Middle East are guided by myopic strategies rather than moral foresight

The Second Amendment has been the subject of debate for centuries now, and you might be surprised to find where that still-unsettled dispute has led the United States.

What you need to know about mass shootings in the United States.

There are around 90 guns for every 100 Americans yet, despite 85 fatal shootings a day, the mighty US gun lobby is as powerful as ever. In the wake of Trayvon Martin's killing, Gary Younge reports on the country's deadly attachment to firearms.

In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now? Do you have a gun in your home? Have you, personally, ever fired a gun, or not?

Gun numbers, firearm homicide and crime, the impact of armed violence on health and development, gun laws and gun control in United States.

Frequently asked questions about gun policy and public opinion.

Read the latest articles and commentary on gun control and gun rights at US News.

In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, the country has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.

Firearm law and policy news, armed violence reduction, country-by-country small arms policy and international, evidence-based gun control information.

The debate over gun control in the United States has waxed and waned over the years, stirred by a series of mass killings by gunmen in civilian settings. In particular, the killing of twenty schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 fueled a national discussion over gun laws and calls by the Obama administration to limit the availability of military-style weapons.

In the wake of yet another gun-related spate of violence in the U.S., can legislation prevent mass hootings? These countries have tried.

The Charleston murders have renewed the sporadic debates over whether gun control might have prevented this latest of tragedies.

Gun laws and policy vary considerably around the world.