Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy serves as a Rorschach test for the American public. For conservatives, it’s a triumph of permissive gun laws and a victory over the liberal media, which had been unfairly rooting for the dead kid all along. For liberals, it's a tragic and glaring example of the gaps that plague our criminal justice system. For people of color, it’s a vivid reminder that we must always be deferential to white people, or face the very real chance of getting killed.

In an odd twist to the old "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" routine, a Texas man incited panic after he entered a movie theater in Bryan and began making "gun gestures" and "shooting noises" in the general vicinity of patrons.

Rent-a-cops hired to guard the site of a Wisconsin mining operation have begun stalking the woods around the mine in balaclavas and camouflage fatigues, all while armed with semi-automatic rifles, and an extra handgun holstered at the hip, just in case. Meet the security guards of the future!

A San Antonio man faces criminal charges after he accidentally shot his girlfriend while aiming a weapon at his ex-girlfriend.

The U.S. Park Service has its very own police force, consisting of hundreds of officer patrolling national parks and keeping the public safe. Also, they've lost track of more than a thousand deadly weapons. You can't have it all, okay?

A bunch of awful xenophobes in Dalton Gardens, Idaho have banded together to sell bullets wrapped in a unique porcine coating. The goal here is for the ammunition to strike fear into the hearts of Muslims who abstain from pork. The company is called "Jihawg Ammo." The tag line: "Put some HAM in Mohamed." For fuck's sake.

This weekend in Chicago at least 41 people were shot, seven of them fatally. The youngest victim was 16 years old.

Americans are not only interested in giving away a large amount of weapons, they're also buying them in record numbers as well.

New details have emerged that reveal more about the violent past of John Zawahri, the 23-year-old Santa Monica resident who shot and killed five people on Friday. In what seemed to be a planned attack, Zawahri killed his father and brother, then carjacked a vehicle and forced the driver to take him to the Santa Monica College campus where he shot and killed three others. Zawahri was then shot and killed by the police.

The principal of an elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area offered students a chance to trade in their toy guns for a book and a chance to win a bike as part of the school's first toy gun "buyback" program.

D.C. may not be the murder capital of America anymore, but that doesn't mean it's out of the woods just yet. Police are now on the lookout for a man who approached a couple at Pizzoli's Pizzeria in Logan Circle last month and pulled a gun on them mid-meal, demanding their cash and valuables.

Police in Florida arrested a man they say killed three coworkers who made fun of him for being a poor shot.

With temperatures soaring over 90 degrees, New Yorkers faced the hottest weekend yet this year—and the most violent. In 48 hours, over four boroughs, 25 people were shot, including a 15-year-old protecting an infant and an 11-year-old paralyzed by a stray bullet.

A 5-year-old boy from Maryland reportedly wet himself while being interrogated by school officials for two hours without a parent present over an orange-tipped "cowboy-style cap gun" he brought with him to show a friend.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly today paraphrased three threatening letters sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama last week: "Anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face." Thus far, two of the letters have tested positive for ricin.

For the third time in two months, letters tainted with the poison ricin have been intercepted on the way to a public figure. In this case, letters addressed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived last week at both a Manhattan municipal building and the Washington, D.C., office of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization Bloomberg finances and helps lead.

A Florida man was asked to leave Walt Disney World this weekend after forgetting his handgun, which was loaded with hollow point bullets, on the seat of a ride at the Animal Kingdom. The man said he was unaware guns are banned from the park.

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help to track down a young man who recently picked a very silly, slippy night to halfheartedly attempt a murder.

The beloved 850-year-old cathedral on Île de la Cité is closed after a man reportedly shot himself inside the historic tourist trap visited by 12 million people a year. The man was an anti-gay marriage fanatic.

Reuters reports a man "carrying a dummy grenade and a knife" as well as a pistol was arrested immediately after firing shots at the Cannes Film Festival. No injuries are being reported.