Hospitals can be dangerous places. From 2012 to 2014, healthcare institutions reported a 40 percent increase in violent crime, with more than 10,000 incidents mostly directed at employees.

The Transportation Security Administration is on track to see a record number of passengers bringing guns to U.S. airports this year, with a surge in gun collections at security checkpoints in July, according to the Washington Examiner.

Today in America, Second Amendment rights and university security missions are seemingly at odds.

Fifty percent of voters say that they are concerned that the government will go too far in restricting the rights of citizens to own guns, according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In 2015, TSA officers intercepted 2,653 firearms in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints across the United States.

Two Democratic lawmakers filed a bill that would bar firearms at ticketed events in locally owned parks and major sports venues.

The number of passengers who tried, knowingly or not, to bring guns onto planes in their carry-on luggage nearly doubled in the past six years – from 976 in 2009 to 1,813 in the U.S. last year, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

Federal officials say screeners at U.S. airports detected a record number of weapons in 2013.

Murders across the United States dropped by almost half between 1992 and 2011.