guns

Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second Amendment.

Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed culture.

Sociologist Jennifer Carlson interviewed 50 gun sellers to find out why so many Americans flock toward firearms.

In Rahimi, the Supreme Court seems to have glimpsed the problems with its own Bruen decision on guns. Should we be relieved?

I’ve been offering my tangled knots of questions and memories as prayers.

Cowardly politicians sacrifice the helpless upon it.

Breaking America’s fetish for lethal weapons

Jonathan Metzl offers useful data and analysis, if not much empathy.

Life in America has been changed by gun culture.

My church has Fort Knox-level safety protocols. Why?

RAWtools began with a blacksmith and a friend’s donated AK-47.

A gun shaped like a phone. A Hello Kitty rifle. Cities that require you to own a gun.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's social history highlights who's at the other end of the barrel.

What do our baptismal vows have to do with safety?

Concealed weapons don't make us safer; communities do.

In Texas, even pastors are carrying.

It’s damnable that any reflection on American gun violence is quickly out of date. I was in Texas when the October 1 shooting occurred in Roseburg, Oregon, leaving 10 dead including the gunman. I was revising an article provoked by that shooting when 14 were shot dead December 2 in San Bernardino, California. Now there are two statistics I can’t get out of my mind: first, mass shootings (resulting in four or more deaths) occur at a rate of more than one a day in the United States. Second, more American gun deaths have occurred since 1970 than American war deaths since 1775.

This is insane. What’s wrong?