Update, 12:44 pm: The German government has reportedly stated that the weapon used by the previously reported gunman may not have been real.

Donald Trump, one of the two people most likely to become our next president, spent the day disseminating unverified information and using innocent victims’ deaths as a chance to pat himself on the back. And he’s just getting started.

Eight people were shot—five fatally, including a pregnant woman—in a shooting at a backyard cookout in Wilkinsburg, Pennslyvania, on Wednesday night. According to the Associated Press, the medical examiner ruled the death of the fetus a homicide on Thursday, bringing the number of those killed to six.

While pro-gun demonstrators staged an ill-advised and disturbing fake shooting to call for the need for guns on a campus full of people whose brains aren’t fully developed yet, on another side of the University of Texas at Austin campus, that protest was met with farts.

Multiple gun rights groups will be joining together this weekend for a mock mass shooting on the University of Texas campus, an event complete with cardboard guns, crisis actors, and fake blood. Now, what could this possibly accomplish?, a reasonable person might be wondering. But as one of the protestors told Statesman.com: “We love freedom, and we’re trying to make more freedom.”

According to the FBI, the first two things your kids should attempt in any active shooting situation are 1) run or, if that’s not possible, 2) hide. According to Fox & Friends, Little Johnny needs to stand his goddamn ground.

Investigations into the background of the husband-and-wife pair who attacked an office building in San Bernardino, California, last week found that the couple had been radicalized for a while.

As the number of mass shootings in 2015 continues to climb and, by some counts even outpaces the number of days so far in the year, The New York Times issued a desperate plea for an end to the violence brought on by too-lax gun control laws in the U.S.

On Wednesday night, hours after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San Bernardino, the Daily Beast found photos it thought were of the male shooter, Syed Farook, and posted them on their website and social media accounts.

Here are today’s front pages of New York City’s two tabloid newspapers. Which one is “better?”

The San Bernardino mass shooting wasn’t the only mass shooting today. Four people were shot in Savannah, Georgia, early this morning, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The too-little-too-late redemption tour of one Jay Dickey continued today—of all days—on Capitol Hill, with a letter released by the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. This will be a handy reminder that regret—truly a weighty motherfucker for the sufferer—has a realtime value of roughly jack-shit in the world outside your tormented soul.

The San Bernardino county sheriff has confirmed the presence of an active shooter near the 1300 block of S. Waterman in San Bernardino, CA. At least 12 people are dead, with another 20 reportedly injured.

There have been over 300 reported shootings in the U.S. in 2015 so far—so many so that some witnesses have been present for more than one.

Days before going on the shooting spree that left three dead in Colorado Springs this weekend, the man law enforcement officials anonymously confirmed as the shooter uploaded a Youtube video and wrote a blog post—both included rambling thoughts on religion but no mention of the impending violence.

Fatal gunfire broke out during a zombie-themed street festival in Fort Myers, Fla., Saturday night, the Associated Press reports.

Chris Mintz, who was wounded during the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College earlier this month, has taken to Facebook to share his eye-witness account, the Associated Press reports.

According to the Guardian, there have been at least 1,000 mass shootings in this country Sandy Hook, the bloody milestone having been passed in Inglis, Florida, just a few hours after Chris Harper Mercer killed himself and eight other people in Roseburg, Oregon.

Laurel Harper—the mother of gunman Chris Harper-Mercer who murdered nine people at Umpqua Community College last week—is not only an active and passionate gun owner, but an active and passionate fan of Donald Trump, according to a Yahoo Answers account uncovered by The New York Times.