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October 3, 2017
MagazineLaura Reston
The NRA’s New Scare Tactics
With Trump in the White House, the gun lobby has transformed into a right-wing media outlet.
October 2, 2017
Sarah Jones
How should we politicize mass shootings?
June 23, 2017
Brian Beutler
There’s a Health Care Lesson for Republicans in the Shooting of Steve Scalise
The GOP is attempting to expose millions of Americans to the kind of financial ruin that he has avoided—for now.
October 28, 2016
Graham Vyse
Trump Supporters Say They Want a Revolution. They Don’t.
Threats of a post-election uprising is a bunch of Trumpian bluster.
August 30, 2016
Jonathan M. Metzl
Guns in Donald Trump’s America
July 18, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
The cops just love these open-carry clowns.
July 18, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
A man came to the RNC today wearing a shirt that read “CUCK HUNT” and an assault rifle strapped to his back.
July 11, 2016
Noah Berlatsky
We Need a “Blue Lives Matter” Movement—for Gun Control
Loose gun laws put police officers at risk. So where's the outrage?
June 21, 2016
Brian Beutler
Progressive Democrats are channeling their inner Dick Cheneys against Republican gun fanatics.
June 17, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
No, Gun Control Won’t Prevent Terrorism. But That’s Not the Point.
May 9, 2016
Stephanie Heimann
And There They Died
A photographer catalogs the makeshift memorials for the victims of New York City's gun violence.
April 5, 2016
MagazineEli Gottlieb
The Guns That Won
The haphazard origins of American gun culture.
March 14, 2016
Colin Dickey
The Fatalism of Gun Worship
A new book shows our history of helplessness in the face of accidental shootings.
March 10, 2016
Jonathan M. Metzl
Are Looser Gun Laws Changing the Social Fabric of Missouri?
How the state went from having some of the strictest gun laws in the country to having hardly any at all.
January 21, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Will people please stop trying to take loaded guns on planes?
January 21, 2016
Dennis Henigan
Dear Democrats, Stop Worrying About Paranoid Gun Owners
A new political strategy to reduce gun violence in America.
January 18, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Bernie Sanders said Hillary Clinton is being “disingenuous” about his position on guns.
January 18, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Bernie Sanders just made an important change in his position on gun control.
January 15, 2016
Suzy Khimm
Marco Rubio struggles to explain how, exactly, Obama is going to take everyone’s guns away.
January 14, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Gun Control Can Swing the 2016 Election
Democrats—so long on the defensive—should use the issue this year to rekindle the Obama coalition.

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