Mass Shootings

New research finds they are more likely than their black counterparts to be portrayed as victims of mental illness.

• By Tom Jacobs

Researchers find that those who have a mental illness are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime.

• By Jared Keller

Charlie Mirsky, and Alfonso Calderon, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, take part in a Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the House Visitor Center.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

By treating each mass shooting as an isolated tragedy, we are giving mass shooters—and the toxic communities they stem from—exactly what they want.

• By Jared Keller

The coffin of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, is carried during her funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Downward social mobility and scapegoating are inspiring white men to commit atrocities.

• By Arvind Dilawar

Today marks one month since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

• By Candace Butera

Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.

• By Kate Wheeling

The attorney general vowed to use the Department of Justice to confront America's gun problem. Well, sort of.

• By Jared Keller

The U.S. is stuck in a vicious cycle, not just of bloodshed, but also of helplessness.

• By Jared Keller

Maria Durand and her daughter, Lupita Alcoces, visit a memorial on the edge of town honoring the 26 worshippers killed at the First Baptist Church on November 7th, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Is the U.S. finally ready to grapple with its toxic masculinity problem?

• By Jared Keller

Research shows that, despite their heroics, armed civilians generally do not prevent mass shootings.

• By Emily Moon

Yet the existing data suggests churches aren't more or less vulnerable to gun violence than other publicly accessible spaces.

• By Francie Diep

Lockton Companies Vice President John Tomlinson sells terrorism insurance to the stars. Business is booming.

• By Emily Moon

Perhaps the ubiquity of firearms has made us less vigilant to the threats that lax protections pose.

• By Jared Keller

The focus on ideological terrorism in the Orlando nightclub massacre obscures the anti-LGBT hatred we’ve let fester within our own borders.

• By Jared Keller

A new study shows just how easily lawmakers could abate our national gun crisis.

• By Jared Keller

It glosses over the broader reality of who is most at risk of being murdered with guns.

• By Lois Beckett

The right move isn't to legislate; it's to repeal.

• By Jared Keller

Pacific Standard's primer on the "terrorist gap."

• By Francie Diep

A look at all the mass shootings in America since President Barack Obama took office.

• By Francie Diep

Why Obama's election also yielded a strange new obsession with gun rights.

• By Jared Keller

Mass shootings in the United States are on the rise. And men are almost always to blame.

• By Tristan Bridges & Tara Leigh Tober