There’s been no shortage of examples to remind me of the grim reality of American gun culture. The closest happened near the doorstep of my Washington DC apartment.
Even after the 72-year-old shooter brought a submachine gun-style weapon into another nearby dance hall,there was still no alert to the public.
As investigations continue,it also emerged the shooter had visited police to say that his family was poisoning him.
The man was found in a van and believed to be the gunman who killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio in Los Angeles.
Police have released images of the suspected gunman and surrounded a white cargo van believed to be connected to the incident.
The injury to the teacher,a woman in her 30s,was considered life-threatening,though she had shown some improvement in hospital,police said.
The US is experiencing a growth in anti-LGBTQ extremism fuelled in part by right-wing commentators and politicians riling up their bases.
Can the worship of weapons be stopped in a country at war with itself?
A partisan divide - with Democrats largely eschewing firearms and Republicans embracing them - has warped political speech in the US.
The rapper was killed after a shooting outside a bowling alley in Houston,Texas
A jury has sent Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to prison for the remainder of his life in a decision that left many families of the victims angered,baffled and in tears.