Gun owners are preparing to fight proposed changes to the law despite Garda warnings of a mass shooting without tighter control on firearms.

Every time someone runs amok in an American school or university campus, or even an idyllic Norwegian holiday island or a quiet Scottish border town, killing at random but for no obvious purpose, one simple truth is underlined:

A bomb threat led to the evacuation of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

The number of shootings in which a gunman opens fire on a crowd of people in the US has increased in recent years, the FBI has said.

The Events uses a different Cork choir each night in the manner of a Greek-style chorus reacting to events, writes Colette Sheridan.

In his first public comments about the 2012 Connecticut school massacre, the father of gunman Adam Lanza said what his son did couldn’t “get any more evil” and he now wishes his son had never been born.

A US pastor who supports gun ownership rights says he plans to raffle a rifle during a Sunday service.

Police in the US have released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation into last year’s school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which could shed new light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman.

A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a US high school, wounding two students before killing himself.

It’s a year to the day since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 in an 11-minute rampage.

Sandy Hook Elementary School has been completely demolished — but one year after the shootings, Americans are as obsessed as ever with guns, says Suzanne Harrington.

There was a flamboyant pop star, a veteran singer, a TV star, some supermodels, and one of the world’s most powerful philanthropists. Even a former secretary of state who may soon be running for president.

A boy opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at his Nevada school yesterday, killing a maths teacher who was trying to protect pupils and wounding two 12-year-old classmates, before turning the weapon on himself.

Two people killed in a US school shooting were a staff member and a student who was probably the attacker, police said.

US lawmaker John Morse explains how he lost his job fighting for gun control — and why he’d do it again.

More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 children and six teachers in a Connecticut elementary school last year.

A week after her father, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly set off a bomb at the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring hundreds, three-year-old Zahara Tsarnaev was seen happily playing on a slide in her grandmother’s yard in Rhode Island.

A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims and declared it a “pretty shameful day for Washington” after the Senate rejected a measure designed to make it tougher for criminals to get their hands on guns.

The US Senate blocked bipartisan legislation yesterday aimed at tightening restrictions on the sale of firearms.

As the FBI launched a hunt for those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, US President Barack Obama said: “We will find out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.”

The US Senate is ready to launch an emotion-charged debate on new gun restrictions, four months after the carnage at a Connecticut elementary school spurred President Barack Obama and Congress to address firearms violence.

A community college student who said he had fantasised since childhood about stabbing people to death went on a slashing spree at his Houston, Texas campus.

US President Barack Obama has accused Republicans of stooping to political stunts in an effort to block gun reform.

Connecticut is expected to pass a package of gun control and other laws described by supporters as the most comprehensive in the US.

A gun control package has cleared Colorado’s state senate as its backers described it as a needed response to the state’s blood-soaked history of mass shootings.

Áine McKeever was only 10 at the time but she remembers being in awe of Victoria Mallet.

New York state politicians have agreed the first and toughest gun control laws in the nation.

One student has been injured in a shooting at a rural high school in California today and another has been taken into custody, US officials said.

Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords met families of victims of the Connecticut school massacre that left 26 people dead, nearly two years after she was critically wounded in a mass shooting.

Children who escaped the Connecticut massacre are returning to classes today in a refurbished school named after their old one.

A Columbian factory is to begin designing bulletproof clothes for children for the US market.

The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut primary school has been claimed for burial.

US President Barack Obama pledged to put his “full weight” behind a legislative package next year aimed at tackling gun violence, recalling the school gun rampage that killed 20 young pupils as the worst day of his presidency.

Three police officers have been shot and injured in a police station in New Jersey. The gunman has been shot dead.

Christmas has helped some people in the grieving Connecticut town of Newtown cope a little better with the shooting tragedy that killed 20 schoolchildren, while others have yet to feel the holiday joy.

America’s largest gun rights lobby declared unwavering opposition to any new restrictions in the aftermath of the Connecticut primary school massacre, accusing the White House of trying to undermine the constitutional right to bear arms.

As Americans paused for the one-week anniversary of the Connecticut school massacre, new details emerged about gunman, Adam Lanza, who could take apart and reassemble a computer in a matter of minutes, but rarely spoke to anyone.

Anxious parents are buying armoured backpacks for children and firearms enthusiasts are stocking up on semi-automatic rifles in anticipation of tighter gun control measures following the Connecticut school massacre.

A teacher gunned down during the Connecticut school massacre was remembered as a selfless hero who died trying to shield her pupils.

President Barack Obama is “actively supportive” of reinstating an assault weapons ban, the White House said, as the United States wrestled with the treacherous issue of gun control in the aftermath of the Connecticut primary school massacre.

Nine-year-old Nicholas Sabillon was remarkably composed as he recounted how the gunman who killed his schoolmates pounded on the locked door of the room where he was hiding.

Gene Rosen was heading from his home to a diner when he saw six children sitting in a semi-circle at the end of his driveway.

US gun rights body the National Rifle Association (NRA) has broken its silence four days after a school shooting which left 26 people dead, pledging to help prevent future incidents.

The University of Connecticut is creating a scholarship fund for students from Sandy Hook Elementary school in the state, where 20 students and six members of staff were gunned down last week.