In response to the recent series of mass shootings around the country, President Barack Obama outlined a set of executive actions to address the issue of gun violence in a speech given from the White House...
Georgetown University School of Medicine clinical professors of psychiatry Liza H. Gold and Robert I. Simon argued that links between mass gun violence and mental health are exaggerated in their book...
Ten lives were cut short this month in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.
In the wake of the tragedy, the Obama administration issued a response to gun violence that has never been seen...
On Tuesday, Andy Ward and Alison Parker were buried. We failed them.
In the past few days, we have been left to make sense of their execution, which was broadcast on live television to an unsuspecting...
For decades, Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation — banning both the ownership of handguns and the ability to carry guns in public spaces. But recent court decisions...
Although Elliot Rodger's “revenge against humanity” has been discussed for weeks now, a recent article in Time has kept the memory fresh in my mind. The first sentence of Kate Pickert's “A Murderous...
While his colleagues in Congress spent the evening negotiating the looming government shutdown, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) spent Monday night in the Mortara Center addressing student questions on the...
About four months ago, Adam Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. You remember the tragedy — but at the same time, you don’t. You remember...
In response to the Sandy Hook shooting last December, the Georgetown University College Democrats have launched a week of programming centered on discussing gun violence as one of its biennial “issue...
About 6,000 protesters rallied on the National Mall for the March on Washington for Gun Control to demand greater restrictions to the access of deadly firearms Jan. 26.
The event began with remarks from...
The day after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, I wrote a commentary for The Hoya on the event. Beyond the literal attack that my hometown had just suffered, I feared a media onslaught that was...
When Google News first began to collate articles about a school shooting in Newtown, Conn., my immediate reaction was that it would make Columbine pale in comparison. With the death toll released, it pains...
