The vastly different reactions to two recent shootings by leaders in the U.S. and Australia highlight America’s broken, and deadly, approach to gun violence. Australia’s commitment to

Glenview state Sen. Laura Fine, whose district includes all of Evanston and stretches north to the Winnetka-Glencoe border, calls for “passing common sense gun safety laws” on her campaign site, praising the Illinois assault weapon ban and gun purchase loopholes, bills she co-sponsored.

“Machineguns are both dangerous and unusual not weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” In that one sentence, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Griffin encapsulated the rationale of a Sixth Circuit ruling that’s already ...

Some US gun rights enthusiasts even said that if bystanders on Bondi Beach had been carrying weapons, then the tragedy could have been halted earlier.

As an American who has been living in Australia for the last 13 years, the topic I am asked about more than anything else is guns. Australians ask me if it's scary in America, if I worry about gun violence when I'm there,