Shooter drills in class and guns in friends’ homes:Why Matilda,9,doesn’t miss her US school

Shooter drills in class and guns in friends’ homes:Why Matilda,9,doesn’t miss her US school

Just hours before the shooting at a Texas school in which 19 children were killed this week,schoolgirl Matilda McCullough delivered this speech to her Australian classmates about the gun drills regularly held at her US school.

  • byMatilda McCullough

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The Golden State coach was an 18-year-old freshman when his father,Malcolm Kerr,was assassinated by the militant group Islamic Jihad in Lebanon.

  • bySally Jenkins
‘When are we gonna do something?’ NBA coach lashes senators after Texas shooting

‘When are we gonna do something?’ NBA coach lashes senators after Texas shooting

US basketball legend Steve Kerr unleashed in a pre-match press conference,saying 50 Republican senators were ‘holding us hostage’ on gun legislation.

  • byAngus Thomson
Biden asks America:‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’

Biden asks America:‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’

Does it really need to be like this? Should going to school be an occupational hazard for the sake of the Second Amendment?

  • byFarrah Tomazin
Does the film about the Port Arthur massacre immortalise the killer?

Does the film about the Port Arthur massacre immortalise the killer?

Today on Please Explain,senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the film Nitram and whether it should have been made.

  • byNathanael Cooper
Plymouth ‘incel’ mass killer was given back his gun licence last month

Plymouth ‘incel’ mass killer was given back his gun licence last month

MPs and relatives questioned how the gunman was able to legally hold a pump action shotgun despite mental health problems and a series of videos he posted online.

  • byHayley Dixon andIzzy Lyons
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Mexico sues US gun makers over gang violence

Mexico sues US gun makers over gang violence

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Smith&Wesson Brands,Glock and other major gun manufacturers,saying they “wreak havoc in Mexican society by persistently supplying a torrent of guns to the drug cartels”.

  • byNacha Cattan,Chris Dolmetsch andE. Eduardo Castillo
Director addresses controversy about Port Arthur massacre movie

Director addresses controversy about Port Arthur massacre movie

In his first Australian interview about his movie ahead of its premiere at Cannes,Justin Kurzel explains why he felt it had to be made.

  • byStephanie Bunbury
Judge overturns California’s 30-year assault rifle ban as ‘failed experiment’

Judge overturns California’s 30-year assault rifle ban as ‘failed experiment’

US District Judge Roger Benitez compared the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss army knife,“a perfect combination of home defence weapon and homeland defence equipment”.

  • byDon Thompson
Port Arthur and gun control:we cannot rest on our laurels

Port Arthur and gun control:we cannot rest on our laurels

We honour the memory of that horrific day through continued vigilance to reduce firearm injury and death in our community.

  • byJoel Negin
A deadly Sunday:three multiple shootings in one day in America

A deadly Sunday:three multiple shootings in one day in America

The US is already on edge over a surge in shootings after a gunman killed eight workers and himself at an Indianapolis FedEx centre last week.

  • byAakriti Bhalla