PUBLIC opinion on gun control is as polarised as it has ever been.

Hollywood's A-list has banded together in a new video campaigning against gun violence in the US.

Is the Colorado shooter delusional, depressed, or psychotic? And why does this type of tragedy keep happening? Dave Cullen, author of ‘Columbine’, searches for clues in the latest research on mass murderers

Fourteen people have died in Colorado after a gun attack at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie, police said today.

Marilyn Manson has hit back at his critics - insisting he is not to blame for a series of horrifying massacres at US schools.

US police say two high school students had a pair of loaded handguns, a drawing depicting a killing and the intention of randomly shooting people on campus.

With words of hope and healing, Americans marked the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, in which two student gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher.

Oprah Winfrey has cancelled a TV special to mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre out of respect for the victims and their families.

A faster response by police to the attack at an immigrant services centre in the United States would not have saved any lives, a county prosecutor said..

AN extreme form of shyness that mainly affects males can lead to violence and mass murder, psychologists claim.

JOHN GOSDEN’S Cape Cobra can make some small inroads into his 400,000 guineas price tag with victory in the first division of the Wise Catering Maiden Stakes at Salisbury today.

A timeline of the Virginia Tech shootings in America has emerged as police provided new details about what happened on that fateful morning 10 days ago.

The families of Columbine school shooting victims pledged to appeal against a judge’s decision to seal information about the two killers that they say might have helped prevent the Virginia Tech massacre.

SOME of those affected by the Virginia Tech university shootings were quick to direct their anger and grief not just at the gunman who killed 32 people, but also at the two weapons he used.

WHEN the topic turns to school violence, Tom Mauser usually lectures about guns.

THE killings at Virginia Tech university will stir fresh US debate over gun control and what drives people to go on shooting rampages through schools and colleges.

IT is a college where guns are treasured as much as human life, according to a Co Monaghan professor working for the tragic Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Columbine High School, site of the US’ deadliest school massacre eight years ago, was evacuated today after officials received at least one call about a bomb threat, authorities said.

The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom in Bailey, Colorado, killing one of his captives and himself, began the takeover by ordering students to line up at the blackboard.

The high school in the tiny Colorado mountain town of Bailey was closed today.

A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in the Colorado mountain town of Bailey, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl and then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.

An adult gunman took at least four people hostage at the high school in the tiny mountain town of Bailey, Colorado today and several shots were reported fired, authorities said.

YOU may prefer a Michael Crichton thriller or a bit of chick-lit on the beach, but this July offers a new vacation possibility: Reading for Columbine.

Families reacted with fury after a friend of the teenage gunman who killed 10 people at an Indian reservation school was sentenced in secret for his role in the massacre.

TEENAGE gunman Jeff Weise fired 45 times during his rampage through the halls of a Minneapolis high school, killing all seven of his victims in just three minutes.

THE suspect in the worst US school massacre since Columbine smiled and waved as he gunned down five students, a teacher and a guard, asking one of his victims whether he believed in God, witnesses said.

US Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed US President George W Bush and himself as champions of the second amendment to the US constitution — the right to bear arms — in a speech at the National Rifle Association’s 133rd annual convention on Saturday.

A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after police found him outside school with 20 homemade bombs, a rifle and a note saying he wanted to injure everyone at his high school except for three friends.

Two high school students have been arrested in Louisiana and accused of creating an elaborate plan to recreate the bloody Columbine high school massacre on its five year anniversary in April.

The families of five US high school students killed in a 1999 massacre have asked that a federal grand jury investigate their claims of a cover-up by authorities.

Columbine High School shooting survivor Patrick Ireland is suing the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, several deputies and the school district, claiming they failed to do enough to prevent the massacre.

The families of several victims of America’s worst school shooting are suing companies that create violent video games and sex-oriented websites.

An 18-year-old student accused of shooting five people at his high school made a reference to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High in Colorado during class earlier this year and simulated guns with his hands, a classmate said.

The boy accused of shooting dead two classmates in the US talked of going on a shooting spree, it is claimed.

Two teenagers died and 13 were wounded when a 15-year-old boy who was picked on and had talked about shooting classmates opened fire in a high school toilet, officials said.