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

Authorities have released the first names of the 50 people who lost their lives in Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando. Names will continue to be released as the victims’ families are contacted: [Updated]

Earlier today, Obama shed some tears in a rare display of emotion while discussing the child victims of the Newtown massacre. Naturally, the tear truthers are already coming out in droves.

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.

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.

Theodore Wafer, the man convicted of shooting and killing 19-year-old Renisha McBride on his Dearborn Heights, Michigan porch last November, was sentenced to 17 years for second-degree murder.

Minutes ago, a jury found Theodore Wafer guilty of second-degree murder, and manslaughter in the killing of Renisha McBride after just over a day's worth of deliberation. McBride was 19 years old when Wafer shot and killed her on his porch last November. Wafer was remanded to Wayne County Jail to await sentencing.

Shortly before noon today, a Michigan jury retired to deliberate in the case of Theodore Wafer, the Michigan homeowner who shot and killed Renisha McBride on his porch when she approached his house after a car accident. The trial lasted just seven days.

I am an honor student, turned gun shot victim, turned gun carrier/college student, turned a person who almost shot a neighbor's mother because her son "disrespected me" on my block. I did not pull the trigger, thanks to the words of a friend who would have supplied me the gun, but one year later I participated in an equally reprehensible act that included a gun and death.

Earlier this week, writing for The Daily Beast, Roland Martin proposed a solution to combat the surging violence on Chicago's South and West Sides: Send the National Guard to Chicago.

The ragtag Self-Defense Council of Michoacán is riding around in bullet-riddled, bomb-charred pickups as the group fights to seize control of Apatzingán, a city in Mexico's Tierra Caliente valley, from control of a major drug cartel. And the Mexican government wants to stop them.

Patricia Larry, whose 13-year-old son was shot and killed by their 76-year-old neighbor John Henry Spooner, who thought the boy was stealing a gun, testified yesterday in Spooner's trial.

A 60-year-old gunman engaged in a shooting rampage in his Serbian village early this morning, killing 13 people before killing himself. His son, his wife, and a two-year-old child were among those murdered by the man, identified as Ljubisa Bogdanovic. This is the first mass murder in Serbia in six years; in the last, a man killed nine people in a village in eastern Serbia.

Guns don't kill people—no, they do. One did this past Saturday, in the 26,000-person town of Lebanon, Tennessee, when it was left loaded on a bed, within grabbing distance of a toddler.

Police were called to a home-based daycare in Gatineau earlier this morning after reports of gunshots—and about 20 police vehicles arrived in the residential area.

The National Rifle Association produced its 225-page plan for securing schools from gun violence on Tuesday—and the report cited fake evidence and incorrect facts from school shootings.

While he attempts to put pressure on Congress to pass federal measures that would increase gun control, President Obama is visiting Colorado today to draw attention to its recently passed gun control laws.

The Huffington Post is running a lengthy feature which profiles the shooting deaths of five Americans over the past decade. Similar to the AP story from a few weeks ago that profiled the shooting deaths of Americans on a single day, the Huffington Post feature outlines the lives lost and, more extensively, their survivors.

Last night, an as-yet unidentified man locked himself inside of the bathroom at a Pennsylvania sporting goods store, then shot himself after a four-hour "standoff" with local police.

A six-month-old died Tuesday morning, the day after she was the victim of a shooting in Chicago. The baby, Jonylah Watkins, was shot five times, reportedly while her father, the reported target of the shooting, changed her diaper in his mini-van in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. The father, Jonathan Watkins, was also shot several times and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he remains in critical condition.