Guns and Gun Control

NRA Youth

Why Are Schools Still Accepting NRA Money? Why Are Schools Still Accepting NRA Money?

NRA Foundation grants to youth programs like Eddie Eagle help explain why guns are so popular in the US.

Mar 16, 2018 / StudentNation / Sophie Kasakove

Magnum Farce

Magnum Farce Magnum Farce

ignore this…

Mar 8, 2018 / Comix Nation / Ward Sutton

Chris Hayes: What Trump Means When He Says He’s ‘Strong on Crime’

Chris Hayes: What Trump Means When He Says He’s ‘Strong on Crime’ Chris Hayes: What Trump Means When He Says He’s ‘Strong on Crime’

Plus: Gary Younge on kids and guns and Michael Walzer on foreign policy for the left.

Mar 8, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Teachers return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Asking Teachers to Carry Guns Is Just Another Way of Refusing to Respect Them Asking Teachers to Carry Guns Is Just Another Way of Refusing to Respect Them

A new item has been added to the long list of impossible expectations for teachers: Picking up a weapon.  

Mar 6, 2018 / Belle Chesler

NRA TV Is No Joke

NRA TV Is No Joke NRA TV Is No Joke

Laugh all you want, but the channel is dangerously effective in radicalizing a right-wing base.

Mar 5, 2018 / Scot Nakagawa

Students Aren’t Waiting for March or April. They’re Protesting Now.

Students Aren’t Waiting for March or April. They’re Protesting Now. Students Aren’t Waiting for March or April. They’re Protesting Now.

Every day since February 21, high-school and middle-school students across the country have protested for stronger gun laws, often by walking out of class.

Mar 5, 2018 / StudentNation / Samantha Schuyler

Boy US Flag DC

Do We Need to Redefine Masculinity—or Get Rid of It? Do We Need to Redefine Masculinity—or Get Rid of It?

It might not be enough to expand on masculinity’s so-called “innate properties.” We might have to rethink the idea of innate manhood altogether.

Mar 2, 2018 / Collier Meyerson

Parkland Gun Control

How the Parkland Kids Are Beating the Gun Industry How the Parkland Kids Are Beating the Gun Industry

George Zornick on gun control, Jane McAlevey on unions, and Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, Jared, and Don Jr.

Mar 1, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Parkland, Florida Shooting

A Former SWAT Operator Says the Cop Who Stood Outside Is Another Victim of the Parkland Massacre A Former SWAT Operator Says the Cop Who Stood Outside Is Another Victim of the Parkland Massacre

“Good guys with guns” are not going to prevent—or even lessen the horror of—mass shootings.

Feb 27, 2018 / Joshua Holland

Artists Take Aim at Guns… AGAIN.

Artists Take Aim at Guns… AGAIN. Artists Take Aim at Guns… AGAIN.

Thoughts and prayers don’t stop bullets and our children keep dying as Congress fails to act.

Feb 27, 2018 / OppArt / Steve Brodner, Edel Rodriguez, Peter Kuper, Felipe Galindo, Anthony Freda, and Thomas Kerr

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