The unfettered right to own and carry weapons has come to symbolize the Republican Party’s ideology of individual liberty. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on gun rights despite the mass shootings occurring with a greater frequency.
- October 10, 2017The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can't be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.
- October 4, 2017Someday, people will read about this moment in history books and wonder how we got to this level of insanity.
- October 3, 2017A mental health professional talks about the emotional and mental fallout from the violence in Las Vegas.
- October 2, 2017There comes a point where you feel like there's nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn't already been said.
- June 26, 2017The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.
- March 12, 2017A Kansas community seeks to understand a recent massacre — and uses a cutting-edge strategy to stop the next one.
- June 14, 2016We cannot allow those who would profit off our pain to cause us to hate.
- December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
- December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.