Gun control

It came just days after his dad called on Congress to pass new gun-control measures

More people died from firearm injuries in the United States last year than in any other year since at least 1968, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Americans support stricter gun laws by a more-than two-to-one margin, one of the highest levels on record, a polling agency reported Feb. 20 one week after the latest U.S. school shooting left 17 people dead.

British activists are advocating for looser gun laws in response to the Saturday night ISIS terror attack that killed eight people and wounded nearly fifty others in central London.

“These tragedies may have been the eye opener to just how ineffective our laws are,” Dave Ewing, a representative from the gun ownership advocacy group, Firearms-UK, told Vocativ.

In this age of waxing laws and waning freedoms, a notable exception to the pattern of ever-tightening restrictions is gun prohibitions.

President Barack Obama will introduce a raft of executive actions to try to reduce US gun violence on Jan. 4, bypassing Congress and launching a bitter 2016 election year fight.