Operation Phobos

Gunfire erupted during a toddler’s birthday party in Stockton, California, killing three children and injuring 11 others. The birthday girl’s mother recalls mistaking the shots for popping balloons as chaos unfolded inside the banquet hall.

Joined by educators, parents, and gun control advocates, thousands of Georgia students on Friday staged a classroom walkout organized by the youth-led March for Our Lives "to demand a future free from gun violence" following the September 4 mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, the deadliest such event in the state's history.

An elected Republican official in Texas reportedly shot his own grandson by accident during a wedding.Michael Gardner, who reportedly serves as a commissioner in Ector County, Texas, was trying to signal the beginning of his nephew's wedding with the firearm, according to the Washington Post'

A 6-month-old baby in Atlanta is dead after a shooting at an apartment complex, WDBJ, reported. Police who arrived on the scene at The Hills at Greenbriar apartments found a baby boy, a 23-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds. The baby later died at the hospital.

New polling shows trouble ahead for Republican politicians who continue blocking any attempt at rational restrictions on guns...

A 2-year-old child was struck in the head by an apparent stray bullet Monday at a Utah day care center, authorities said. The child was taken to Primary Children’s Hospital and was in stable condition and improving as of Wednesday afternoon.

Police are searching for a man from Gastonia, North Carolina who allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents, and other nearby people over a basketball that rolled into his yard, according to Queen City News.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri state Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern has been sounding the alarm for years over the state’s loose gun laws and in February introduced a bill limiting the scope of Missouri’s “stand your ground” law. The bill went nowhere. 

Conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk doubled down on his belief that gun deaths are "worth it" because of the liberty firearms provide.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the span of a little over a month, Central Florida has been left reeling by a spate of several gruesome gun deaths, many of them young children.

A young boy stares at a rack of guns inside a Sweetwater Rifle and Pistol Club show at Nolan County Coliseum on March 11, 2018 in Sweetwater, Texas. 

Child’s death reflects larger crisis: gun violence has now become the #1 cause of death among children and teenagers

The Aug. 30 edition of the Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s student newspaper, was supposed to be devoted to the upcoming football season. The first game would be days away. They would play South Carolina at home in prime time. Hard to imagine a bigger story. Then an armed suspect walked up to associate professor Zijie Yan on Aug. 28 and shot him dead. The campus was sent into lockdown and thousands upon thousands of students, faculty and staff—and the people who love them—were sent reeling toward an all-too-familiar cycle of dread and fear. 

A 1-year-old boy in Detroit is miraculously recovering in the hospital after his 6-year-old brother shot him twice while he was in a bouncy chair, reported Local 4 News.

The grandson of Andrew Lester, the man who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl after he rang Lester's doorbell, told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday that he had regularly heard his grandfather make racist comments.

After decades of steady improvement, the death rate of America’s children and teens shot up between 2019 and 2021 — and COVID-19 wasn’t the reason. Gun-related deaths represented the largest share of the increase — by far. 

“We are here because an injustice has happened," voices rang out Sunday as a march began in Kansas City for Ralph Yarl, quoted KMBC's Peyton Headlee on Twitter. 

Democratic members of the Tennessee House of Representatives assembled a list Thursday of what does not get a Republican legislator expelled as the GOP supermajority booted two African American members for protesting too loudly over gun violence.

I should have known from the get-go that this would be a different kind of April Thursday here in Tennessee...After all, Martin Luther King was murdered here in Memphis, on a Thursday, on a balcony at The Lorraine Hotel, on April 4, 1968. 

Nashville Rep. Justin Jones (D) scolded his Republican colleagues on Thursday as they pushed through demonstrators protesting the recent shooting at the Covenant Christian school.