Suddenly, after yet another multiple-fatality shooting in America, the latest yesterday at a venerable newspaper office in Maryland, I’ve reached the end of my rope. I no longer give a flying flock of fairy flycatchers what either the 1st or 2nd amendments say. They both need to go, in part. Or, at bare minimum, be radically rewritten. They aren’t working. Repeat, they aren’t working!

A child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana: A handgun inside a sofa.

Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world's firearms, a new study said Monday. There are more than one billion firearms in the world but 85 percent of those are in the hands of civilians, with the remainder held by law enforcement and the military

For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to review national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

For more than a year, Florida failed to do national background checks that could have disqualified people from gaining a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The lapse, revealed in an internal report that was not widely known about until Friday, occurred during a time period when there was a significant surge in the number of people seeking permission to legally carry a concealed weapon. Florida does not allow the open carry of weapons, but more than 1.9 million have permits to carry guns and weapons in public if they are concealed.

A Florida police officer is facing mounting backlash over a Facebook comment in which he seemingly wished violence upon Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and other young gun control activists.

Children who participate in gun safety programs often ignore what they learned when encountering a real firearm, according to a Rutgers School of Nursing study. The report, published recently in Health Promotion Practice, reviewed 10 studies on the effectiveness of strategies for teaching gun safety to children ages 4 to 9. The researchers found such programs do not reduce the likelihood that children will handle guns when they are unsupervised, that boys are more likely than girls to ignore gun-safety rules and that few studies exist of gun-safety programs for children beyond the fourth grade.

Start 'em young, folks!

Photographs of the event capture the many contradictory facets of firearm-loving culture. By Charles Bethea and Mark Peterson.

Gun control activists are to meet 80,000 National Rifle Association supporters in Dallas this weekend, where the gun lobby is hosting its annual three-day meeting. The convention is being held less than two months after the push for gun control drew thousands to protests across the country and inspired one of the largest student demonstrations in US history. An additional stressor for the NRA is the impact these actions and Donald Trump’s divisiveness will have on the Republican party heading into the November midterms.

President Donald Trump suggested, during his speech at the annual National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, that gun rights are given to Americans by God.

"I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?"

Many gun owners say the primary reason they own a firearm is self-defense. But for years, experts have been starkly divided over how often people actually use guns for this purpose.

An exaggerated (and outdated) trend has been used to attack a group of young gun control activists online.

A response to Jack Dunphy.

A group of students from Rockledge High School in Brevard County briefly walked out of class Friday to show their support for the Second Amendment. About 75 students, according to a head count by school administrators, walked onto the school's track carrying the American flag and signs that said "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "I support the right to bear arms." The event lasted about 20 minutes and then students returned to class.

In the wake of mass shootings, a lifetime of gun ownership leads to unsettling questions.

In the week since the March for Our Lives student activists have rebuffed claims of a secret plan to repeal the second amendment

Gun rights supporters protesting gun restriction legislation are gathering at the Vermont Statehouse, urging the governor not to sign the bill.Police estimate hundreds of protesters turned out Saturday to show their opposition a day after the Vermont legislature passed the gun restrictions package. Protesters were giving away 1,200 30-round magazines. The legislation would ban high-capacity magazines and rapid-fire devices known as bump stocks, in addition to raising the legal age. It would also expand background checks for private gun sales.

A high school student was suspended and arrested after posting an image of a toy gun on social media. Zach Cassidento, a high school senior at Amity High Regional School was suspended and arrested as a juvenile after he posted a picture of a toy gun, or what’s called an “airsoft gun,” on Snapchat.