Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to to talk about her life and work, how anger has fuelled her poetry at different stages of her life – touching on topics such as domestic abuse, segregation, Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump – and recounts her experience of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
This isn’t the first school shooting since the February attack in Florida, but it’s the deadliest. Ten students and staff members are reported to have been killed in a high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. A suspect is in custody, authorities say the gunman is a 17-year-old male student from the school, and that…
In just one article, Ms Coulter has made ten false or contested claims about immigration, mass shootings and gun control. Here they are.
It’s a story of guns, power and Washington ethics: the new political thriller Miss Sloan opens this week, starring Jessica Chastain as a lobbyist ‘hired to win’ in a battle over gun legislation.
Barack Obama says America is the only developed country where gun massacres are commonplace. Is he right?
Matt Frei
Gun violence is an epidemic in America. But every time there is a school, cinema or restaurant massacre, the sale of guns and ammo increases and the gun control debate gets drowned out.
Matt Frei
As a jury acquits George Zimmerman of the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, Matt Frei explores a good year for the gun in “shoot first, ask later” America.
Matt Frei
Deadly bombings, fire disasters and ricin threats remain less toxic to the US psyche than the bitter argument over gun control, writes Matt Frei in Boston.
Matt Frei
Despite an outpouring of public anguish after the Newtown massacre, gun control measures called for at the time now seem impossibly ambitious in the face of US political realities.
Hitler said if you disarm a nation, you conquer it – one of the many myths used by the pro-gun lobby to justify America’s love affair with arms. We put the claims to the test.
US conservatives are digging in amid calls for tighter gun laws, with some even claiming Britain is more dangerous than America, despite the lack of firearms here. FactCheck investigates.
Matt Frei
The Newtown massacre has produced a watershed. Because when you combine an 18th century rationale for bearing arms with a 21st obsession with violence in video games, films and online, you’re in trouble.