Gun Control

President Barack Obama Tuesday held his first press conference of the New Year announcing his plans to make gun control regulations already in place stricter. In light…

Imagine your kindergartner is visiting a new friend’s house. During the hour they are running around together, they’ll pick up and play with...

Tayloni Mazyck, 11, was shot in the neck by a stray bullet in front her Bedford Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) home in New York and may never walk again, reports the Huffington Post. Tayloni, known as “Tutu,” was outside with her mother and a baby cousin when Kane Cooper, 17, who lives one block away, walked up and opened fire on 2 men standing nearby. Taylon ...

Watched by tearful relatives of Newtown school massacre victims, gun control supporters in the Senate won the first showdown over how to respond to the December shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start. ...

(AP) — Democrats have brought gun control legislation to the Senate floor amid a threat from conservative Republican senators to use delaying tactics to prevent formal debate from even beginning. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took the first procedural step to begin debate on Monday. He said Republicans owed relatives of the massacre ...

This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult but I need to say...

by LZ Granderson CNN Contributor (CNN) — When then Sen. Obama was running for president, many of his critics accused him of being a Muslim…

Lawmakers from both parties voiced their willingness Sunday to pursue some changes to the nation’s gun laws, but adamant opposition from the National Rifle Association has made clear than any such effort will face significant obstacles. ...