gun violence

On Monday night, a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, killing three people and wounding five others before fatally shooting himself.

On Monday, a gunman shot and killed seven people at two agricultural businesses in Half Moon Bay, California, making it the third mass shooting in the state in eight days.

Tragedy struck Saturday night when a gunman killed 10 and injured 10 others in a mass shooting at a dance studio. The suspect, later identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, opened fire at those attending a dance class at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing five men and five women. Ten others were wounded, with seven being treated at a local hospital. Their conditions range from stable to critical.

Police believe two suspects fatally shot six people, including a teenage mother and her baby, at a home in Central California on Monday. According to authorities, the suspects remain at large.

A pastor in Nashville who left the Congo due to war was killed outside his apartment last week and left like "trash in the yard," according to police.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, President Joe Biden said he would launch a renewed effort to ban assault rifles amid a recent string of mass shootings across the country.

A group of black pastors led a prayer vigil on Sunday on behalf of the victims who were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Our society largely fails to cultivate young men, to teach them about their fallen natures, and to morally form them to choose love over hate and courage over violence. Thus, the epidemics of addiction, aimlessness, depression, irresponsibility, perversion, selfishness, victimhood, and low expectations continue. Until we face the fact that the root of our problem lies here, the fruit will continue to be bitter. Unless we rebuild the institutions of civil society that cultivate young men—especially the family—there is no way forward. 

Grammy-winning Gospel artist CeCe Winans comforted mourners with a song and a brief message at Saturday's memorial service for the University of Virginia football players who were shot and killed.

A young man opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs late Saturday night, killing five and injuring 25 others.