As I’ve noted before, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in December, most Times readers who write letters on gun control favor strong action by Congress. But the ...

Once we’ve finished regulating firearms in America, according to Rev. Al Sharpton we may have to consider knife control. On his radio show last week, the MSNBC host and outspoken gun control advocate ...

In the wake of the stabbing of fourteen people on the campus of Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas, earlier today, opponents of gun control are asking, facetiously, whether we’re going to ...

You'd better sit down for this one. London has been suffering a spate of homicides recently, bad enough that some contend the murder rate is now worse than New York's. It is, but only if you look at ...

Once upon a time, gun rights advocates warned that when the control freaks were done piling restrictions on firearms, they'd discover that violent crimes failed to evaporate and so next turn their ...

While some British politicians tout the politically favorable claim that violent crime has fallen 38 percent since 2010, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) depicts a rather ...

In June 2015, in the wake of another mass shooting incident that left nine victims dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, debate about the issue of gun ...

On a Tuesday morning a few weeks ago, a 20-year-old student named Dylan Quick showed up at his community college in Texas with an X-acto knife and went on a stabbing spree. By the time it was ...

In an effort to reduce the stabbings and slashings that stem from the country's "booze and blade" culture, Scotland is cracking down on the sale of swords, machetes, meat cleavers and other knifes.