America’s love-hate relationship with guns is reaching a new level. Introduction No observer of contemporary gun politics...
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The GOP wants to substantially reduce the number of background checks done in this country. Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa),...
Just over 100 people, on average, are killed by firearms in the U.S. every day. The uniquely...
How do other countries regulate firearms and respond to mass shootings? Introduction The debate over gun control...
Many claim that the right to carry guns is a universal right that has spanned centuries and...
Determining whether restrictiveness-permissiveness of state gun laws or gun ownership are associated with mass shootings in the...
Both cultural and legislative propositions have significant impacts on deaths by guns. Originally published by the International...
We need tight regulatory control over firearms, including rigorous background checks, safety rules, and the types of...
At the time period of Samuel Colt’s patent, the United States was on the verge of starting...
The contemporary Second Amendment debate is founded on serious misunderstandings. Introduction The Second Amendment is one of...
Most research comparing gun owners to non-gun owners suggests that ownership is rooted in fear. Originally published...
The NRA has capitalized on the religious nationalism that arose in the late 1970s alongside the “Moral...
The United States tends to glorify its Founders and try to maintain a strange temporal connection to...
Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance...
These mass shootings are only symptoms of the disease at the core of the nation. By Greg...
President Donald Trump called for reform of mental health laws on the heels of two deadly shootings that claimed...
America has had an on-again, off-again relationship with political corruption that goes all the way back to...
Here are seven key findings about Americans’ experiences with and attitudes toward guns. Guns are deeply ingrained...
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society...
The lobbying tactics developed by the U.S. tobacco industry no longer just targeted government, but expanded to...
Photo by Ken, Wikimedia Commons More prioritize controlling gun ownership than protecting gun rights. Pew Research /...
Multiple people are dead after a shooting took place near a Pittsburgh synagogue. Multiple people were also...
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, recent site of gunpowder factory. / Photo by Cheungkkanthony, Wikimedia Commons Gunpowder was...
A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip,...
“Every cent that goes to support the defense industry and war (or warlike activities, like air strikes)...
Los Angeles students protesting / LA Times By Dr. Dawson Barrett / 03.05.2018 Assistant Professor of History Del...
It’s time to stop letting the NRA scare the burgeoning gun safety movement led by courageous student...
Late actor and former National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston held a rifle aloft at a 2002...
Boris Yaro’s photograph of Robert F. Kennedy lying wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting By James D....
By Patrick J. Charles, J.D. / 02.15.2018 Senior Historian at United States Special Operation Command Queen Mary...