Here are some of Friday's examples of gun violence.
The Gun Report began seven months ago, after I wrote a column that simply grabbed examples of gun violence from the week's news.
Still, it is important, we believe, that we aggregate these examples of gun violence so that Americans can see, broadly, the severity of the problem.
Among the thousands of pages of internal e-mails and documents Congressional investigators have gathered about the operation, they found a few — from well after the operation began showing that A.T.F. officials considered using some examples of gun flows documented in the case to build a case for requiring greater reporting of multiple "long gun" (rifle) sales by federally licensed gun shops.
After my column on Tuesday about a week's toll of gun violence, a number of readers suggested that I continue to publish examples of gun deaths that resulted from accidental shootings, momentary rage, a feud with a neighbor, a drive-by shooting and all the other reasons American kill each other with guns.
"This is another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States," Earnest told reporters at his daily press briefing.
The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the shooting was "another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States".
The example of gun laws underscored the central point of Mr. Santorum's continued campaign, in the face of many naysayers in the party establishment, that the party should not nominate a moderate who cannot contrast himself sharply with Mr. Obama.
BEIJING — Two men wielding a shotgun and a homemade pistol fatally shot three police officers and an assistant and staged a series of carjackings in a city in northeastern China, state news media reported Wednesday, a rare example of gun violence in a nation where average citizens are largely barred from owning firearms.
