gun violence

A fundraiser for a 2-year-old whose parents were killed during a mass shooting at an Illinois Independence Day parade topped $2 million Wednesday, less than 24 hours after a concerned citizen set up the charity.

On Monday, Police arrested a man suspected of killing at least six people in a mass shooting during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

So here we are again, grieving for those whose lives have been forever altered by the senseless violence perpetrated by a sick and sinful individual. Too often, we offer thoughts and prayers because it just seems like the right thing to do rather than because our hearts genuinely mirror the brokenness felt by our heavenly Father. Let’s not forget that the Lord to whom we pray is grieving just as strongly as those who were harmed by the shooting, and a quick prayer devoid of any real intent or purpose is likely to ring as hollow to him as it would to those mourning in Highland Park today.

President Joe Biden, on Saturday, signed a bipartisan gun control bill into law.

On Friday afternoon, a beloved Texas pastor was shot and killed in a suspected road rage incident.

Prosecutors in California have charged the Chinese American man suspected of shooting up a Taiwanese American church last month with a hate crime.

Two people are dead, and another is wounded after a gunman opened fire at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Vestavia Hills Thursday night. Police apprehended the “lone suspect” after the shooting, according to Vestavia Hills police Captain Shane Ware.

The gunman suspected of committing the mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket last month has been charged with federal hate crimes and for using a firearm to commit murder.

A bipartisan group of senators has come to an agreement on possible gun control legislation that would include stricter laws on gun trafficking, background checks and increased funding for school safety and mental health, among other items.

A shooting outside an Iowa church Thursday evening left three people dead, including the suspected gunman.