Al Jazeera English
| Dec 18, 2012
At least six women working in a UN program giving children polio vaccines have been shot to death by gunmen in separate attacks in Karachi and Peshawar. No one has claimed responsibility for the shootings, but the Taliban had earlier threatened th...
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec 18, 2012
The Newtown tragedy is remarkably reminiscent of the one that Dunblane, Scotland, endured in 1996. The Wall Street Journal looks at how that massacre affected the public policy debate in the UK, and whether that reaction holds any clues to how an ...
Journeyman Pictures
| Dec 17, 2012
An ongoing source of controversy in America, gun laws are increasingly polarizing the Southern states and Washington. In Arizona, Tea Party supporting, heavily armed, vigilante groups are taking over. "The one thing we know about gun control is th...
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec 16, 2012
President Barack Obama vowed yesterday in Newtown to take action to prevent another massacre, strongly indicating he's going to fight to boost gun control. "We can't tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end," said the president, referring t...
IBN Live
| Dec 16, 2012
A gunman who fired 50 shots with a semiautomatic handgun into the air at a crowded Southern California shopping mall was "venting" because he was "unhappy," an investigator told the Los Angeles Times. Cries of "shooter" sent people stampeding...
Associated Press
| Dec 16, 2012
In a moving appearance today in Newtown, President Barack Obama hailed the hero school staffers who tried to save lives with their own in the school massacre, responding "as we all hope we might respond in such terrifying circumstances: with coura...
Associated Press
| Dec 16, 2012
First responders to the Newtown massacre receive an emotional standing ovation at an interfaith memorial service yesterday as some of them cling, sobbing, to one another and parents in the local high school.
Euronews
| Dec 15, 2012
As the scale of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting emerged, anti-gun campaigners quickly rallied. For those who want tougher measures introduced, there was only one question - will this latest shooting spree spur lawmakers into action.
Whitehouse.gov
| Dec 14, 2012
A visibly emotional President Obama delivers a statement on today's shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 14, 2012
There have been at least 26 fatalities and more people injured after a shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut, officials say. The shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, which is in the western p...
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...of firearms that contribute to Mexico's gun violence. “We recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the U...
— Sep 28, 2012 at 08:08 pm
Guy shot himself. People like seeing sudden violence. It's all very shocking if you have the innocence of a five year old, or like pretending you d...
— last Tuesday at 10:53 pm
...of the crime scene, including a schematic showing placement of shooting victims, is seen written on the trunk of a police car in the parking lot...
Shooting is the act or process of firing firearms or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets, and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports, or in combat.
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