gun debate
The Time Gun Control Actually Happened After a Horrific Mass Shooting
In 1993, an unhinged man shot eight people to death and injured six more before killing himself in a San Francisco skyscraper. What happened next is hard to imagine 25 years later.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich wants to solve the gun problem with small steps
John Kasich admits he can only do so much on guns
America's Gun Violence Epidemic Runs Far Deeper Than Parkland
It's good that the Florida school shooting has inspired so much outrage, because most shootings don't.
Democrats Should Run on Gun Control All Over the Country
Common-sense reform wouldn't just be effective, it's more popular than many candidates realize.
America Still Can't Decide What to Teach Kids About Mass Shootings
Most public schools have training for how to respond to active shooters. But some experts say the most popular methods could make a disaster worse.
The Good Guy with a Gun Theory, Debunked
Analyzing 37 years of data, a Stanford team finds no basis for a theory at the heart of the modern gun-rights movement.
Gun Control Shouldn't Mean Stigmatizing the Mentally Ill
An Obama administration rule stopping some disabled people from purchasing guns is not the path to reducing gun violence.
This Group of Black Women Is Taking Up Arms to Fight Racism and Misogyny
What radical black womanist politics organized around self-defense actually looks like, and why it matters.
What I Learned Tracking Every Mass Shooting in America and Europe in 2016
Now that the project has come to a close, I'm more sad than afraid. I've come to see simultaneous chaos and banality in these incidents, the result of a culture that makes it far too easy for violence-prone individuals to access firearms.
The Anatomy of a Mass Shooting at a House Party
How a teenage get-together turned into a scene of bloody chaos that left one neighbor dead.
How the NRA Fed the Rage That Gave America Trump
The Manhattan businessman perfected the Anti-Establishment message the gun group had been honing for years.