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Beto O’Rourke chose Aurora for a political rally. It was a...

It was no accident that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has separated himself from his rivals with blunt talk on gun control, chose...

Littwin: We are thankful for heroes, but we must ask why...

I hate to admit this, but I take too little comfort in the heroics of Kendrick Castillo, who took down one of the STEM...

Littwin: You can’t blame Columbine curse for a shotgun that may...

The truest lesson of Columbine returned in full force to Colorado, and it’s simply this: Columbine will never go away. And then there’s the corollary....

Littwin: It’s not only hearts that are broken when kids are...

If we didn’t know better — and, of course, we do — we’d think it was pretty much impossible for a president to appear...

Littwin: We are fully prepared, once again, to face up to...

It is another day of death and another day of despair. I offer up this column on the day following the mass murder in...

Guns, guns and more gun (bills) at the state Capitol this...

Update: In a hearing that lasted for more than eight hours, the House State Affairs Committee Wednesday killed all three gun bills on its...

Cynthia Coffman’s Columbine Tweets blasted as ‘ignorant,’ ‘insensitive’

Cynthia Coffman doesn’t get it. That’s one Columbine dad’s response to Colorado's Attorney General’s office deriding one of the killers’ mothers for speaking publicly about...

Are Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris’s parents to blame for the...

It must be the parents’ fault. That’s what most of us assumed after the massacre at Columbine High School. In the absence of any other...