Coloured community’s cries for help to end violence, poverty and unemployment continue to be ignored by the government, while the police minister sends in more guns
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
Supporters of the bill say armed teachers could save lives in the event of a school shooting
Lawmakers voted 119-1 in favour of the bill, which bans military-style semi-automatic rifles
Police said there had been "no credible sightings" of a semi-nude gunman who fled after shooting four people dead
Within minutes of the shooting at YouTube offices in California, social media was awash with conspiracy theories
Students in over 800 cities and towns are calling for tougher gun control laws in the United States, demanding an end to gun violence
America’s long moribund gun control debate was revived by survivors of the Parkland shooting and now the minimum age to buy firearms in Florida is 21
The president signalled his support for improving background gun checks amid mounting pressure for reform in the wake of the Florida school shooting
Authorities warned late on Wednesday that the death toll could rise as some of the more than 14 people who were wounded were in critical condition
In recent developments, the girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter is being questioned by the FBI as a ‘person of interest’
In the wake of the tragedy in Las Vegas, a criminologist reviews recent research to dispel common misconceptions about mass shootings.
President Trump has declared the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history as an "act of pure evil" but avoided addressing gun control
The Orlando massacre, the worst mass shooting in modern American history, has seemingly done little to influence lawmakers to clamp down on guns.
Pro-life views and advocacy for gun control are natural moral bedfellows, says new film Armor of Light.
Simply seeing a weapon – whether a sword, rifle, hand grenade, dagger, tank or gun – makes people more aggressive.
Named after the 23-year-old who was raped and killed in Delhi in 2012, the Nirbheek pistol has been designed for women. But it has drawn criticism.
The country stubbornly refuses to act despite multiple recent firearm-related massacres, writes Jonathan Freedland.
A gunman has killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California before police shot him dead in a college library.
While 3D printers will enable us to create everything from keys to cars, they may also enable criminals to create their own guns and commit fraud.
As the NRA celebrates its annual meeting, Alex Hannaford has been commissioned to write a story about US gun culture. So he went out and bought a gun.
Lulu Xingwana is right: Reeva Steenkamp would still be alive if Oscar Pistorius did not own a gun. But intimate-partner violence is more complicated.
GunPolicy.org estimates that there are six million guns in South Africa, roughly 12 for every 100 people.
In the wake of the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp at Oscar Pistorius’s home, the M&G spoke to politicians and leaders on their thoughts on gun control in SA.
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.
US President Obama’s State of the Union speech challenged a divided Congress to back his plans to create middle-class jobs and focused on gun laws.
Efforts to free a child from a gunman in a bunker, where the man took him after killing a school bus driver, have been shrouded in secrecy.
The Oscar Pistorius case has gripped the world, highlighting the violence at the heart of South Africa. Christopher Hope ponders the meaning.
In tracking down illegal weapons in the United States, the smoking gun may not be a gun at all.
Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass measures aimed at reducing gun violence, but also reaffirmed his commitment to the right to bear arms.
United States President Barack Obama has mounted the biggest challenge in two decades to the US’s deeply ingrained gun culture.
"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.