![A man firing an ABC Rifle Company ABC-15 at an outdoor shooting range in Nevada.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/O_GunViolence_Wiki.jpg)
Opinion | Semi-automatic weapons are instruments of mass killing
By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor
• November 14, 2023
![Reggie Daniels pays his respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School on June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, created to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting. As mass shootings are again drawing public attention, states across the U.S. seem to be deepening their political divide on gun policies. A series of recent mass shootings in California come after a third straight year in which U.S. states recorded more than 600 mass shootings involving at least four deaths or injuries.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/O_MassShooting_Via-900x600.jpeg)
Opinion | American desensitization to gun violence calls for strict regulations
By Emily O'Neil, Staff Columnist
• February 6, 2023
![Attendees gather on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park during Saturday’s “March for Our Lives” rally.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Photo-12-900x600.jpg)
‘Change must come’: Rally calls for gun control in light of recent mass shootings
By John Blair, Senior Staff Photographer
• June 15, 2022
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Opinion | I am tired of American politics
By Livia LaMarca, Staff Columnist
• June 14, 2022
![Opinion | Guns and American masculinity are inextricably linked](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/5BEE7383-F334-4A23-90AA-6A77C9EAAA21-900x900.jpeg)
Opinion | Guns and American masculinity are inextricably linked
By Paige Wasserman, Staff Columnist
• June 7, 2022
![Opinion | The legacy of racial segregation contributes to mass shootings today](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/rices-image1-900x900.jpg)
Opinion | The legacy of racial segregation contributes to mass shootings today
By Ebonee Rice-Nguyen, Staff Columnist
• June 7, 2022
![Mayor Bill Peduto spoke at a Thursday afternoon event in Schenley Plaza about gun control legislation pending in the state General Assembly.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/N_PedutoGV_JM-e1622746830313-900x675.jpeg)
Elected officials, community leaders push for gun control at Oakland event
By Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief
• June 3, 2021
![Kathryn Fleisher, a senior politics and philosophy and GSWS double major, is the founder of the national gun violence prevention nonprofit Not My Generation.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/N_Fleisher-675x900.jpg)
Student, national activists speak on gun violence solutions
By Claudia Huggins, For The Pitt News
• November 5, 2019
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