Mass Shootings

The face to face meeting between U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and actress and activist Alyssa Milano was much more civil than their gun law fights on social media.

After the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Midland-Odessa, a Fort Worth church prepares to mark twenty years since its own tragedy.

A potential mass shooting may have been averted after a father in Fort Worth called police on his son.

Fort Worth's mayor and interim police chief are in Washington, D.C. pushing for tougher federal gun laws.

Firefighters from North Texas just got back from visiting West Texas after providing a support system for first responders dealing with the mass shooting.

High school cheerleaders in Southlake wanted to do something to help the people of Odessa after the mass shooting that ended with seven dead and nearly two dozen hurt.

There have been three major mass shootings since Congress went on summer break, and gun control will be at the forefront of legislative conversations.

Most mass shooters in the U.S. acquired the weapons they used legally because there was nothing in their backgrounds to disqualify them, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University who has studied mass shootings for decades.

As the National Rifle Association comes to the Metroplex for a large expo, the state's lieutenant governor is defying the pro-gun rights group.

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke says a mandatory government buyback program for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles is needed because other gun control measures don't do enough to remove weapons already on the streets.

Governor Greg Abbott has issued eight executive orders in response to the mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa.

Walgreens is asking customers to no longer openly carry firearms into their stores, the company said in an announcement on Thursday. 

A Texas couple who were injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso last month has filed a lawsuit against the corporation alleging it did not have adequate security in place to prevent the attack that killed 22 people.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen announced the formation of select committees on mass violence prevention and community safety.

After the recent mass shooting in Odessa, there is pushback against the automatic labeling of a mass shooting as a mental health problem.

ODESSA, Texas (AP) - The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that blocked him from getting a gun in 2014 due to a "mental health issue," a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The owner of a trucking company who was killed in West Texas had moved from Las Vegas after a 2017 mass shooting at a music festival because he thought it would be safer, a sister said.

Two mothers who lost their sons in the Santa Fe mass shooting were also in Odessa when the mass shooting happened there Saturday.

ODESSA, Texas (AP) - Police say they are not sure why a man with a misdemeanor on his record and no warrant for his arrest erupted in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas, killing seven, including a man slain outside his parents' home and a teenager fatally shot as she left a car dealership with her family. Authorities said Seth Aaron Ator, 36, also injured 22...