Chicago is plagued by deadly shootings where as many children die from guns every four months as were killed at the school shooting in Connecticut.

Karl Durkheimer’s gun shop enjoyed record sales of semi-automatic firearms — "modern sporting rifles", as he calls them — and handguns last weekend.

It remains unclear why Adam Lanza (20), who had no criminal history and whose family remember as nerdy and remote, gunned down two dozen people.

"We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years," Obama said during a somber televised appearance in the White House briefing room.

A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Friday that gay couples have the right to get married.

A shooting. A stabbing. A beating. A hold-up. Friday’s release of the new PlayStation 3 gaming console led to several violent incidents across the United States. In Connecticut,…