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  • Letters From an American
    Will There Be a Real Discussion on Gun Control?
    March 24, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    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.

  • Democracy & Government
    The Evil that Guns Do
    October 10, 2017
    | Michael Winship
    The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can't be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.
  • Democracy & Government
    Is Today's NRA the "Price of Freedom"?
    October 4, 2017
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Someday, people will read about this moment in history books and wonder how we got to this level of insanity.
  • Health & Science
    The Psychological Ripple Effects of Mass Shootings
    October 3, 2017
    | Karin Kamp
    A mental health professional talks about the emotional and mental fallout from the violence in Las Vegas.
  • Society
    What More Is There to Say?
    October 2, 2017
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    There comes a point where you feel like there's nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn't already been said.
  • Democracy & Government
    Of Caesar, Guns and Trolls: The Evil that Men Do
    June 26, 2017
    | Michael Winship
    The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.
  • Justice
    One Small Town's Plan to Prevent Another Mass Shooting
    March 12, 2017
    | Mark Follman
    A Kansas community seeks to understand a recent massacre — and uses a cutting-edge strategy to stop the next one.
  • Society
    Hate Must Not Have the First, Last or Loudest Word
    June 14, 2016
    | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
    We cannot allow those who would profit off our pain to cause us to hate.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
    December 4, 2015
    | Dorothy Samuels
    How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
  • The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
    December 4, 2015
    | Dorothy Samuels
    How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.


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