Nation Topics - Guns and Gun Control | The Nation

Gun control advocates can take a page from Harry Truman’s long struggle for public health insurance. 

But I’m not giving up on this precious, important city. America shouldn’t either.

Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

After Newtown, policy-makers are making schools more like prisons—at the expense of those they should be protecting.

Opponents of gun control spent the last twenty years undermining local approaches to gun policy.

It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.

Democrats like Joe Biden were responsible for some of the worst laws behind mass incarceration. Whatever our response to gun violence, a new war on crime is not the answer.

Will Obama's order to increase "school resource officers" funnel more of our students through the school-to-prison pipeline?

Let's face the truth: anyone with a gun can be a "bad guy." What we need is fewer guns, period.

The Roberts Court has shifted away from the very collective values and ideas that will be necessary to enact—and uphold—crucial policies on guns and mental health.