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Spencer Platt / Getty; The Atlantic The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us.
Good marketing is supposed to generate demand. Bad firearms marketing has given us a national nightmare.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Illinois’ Red-Flag Laws Didn’t Stop the Highland Park Shooting
Making such statutes less porous requires approaches that are either extremely confusing or constitutionally problematic.
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Stefani Reynolds / AFP / Getty The Surprising Voice Missing From Gun-Control Talks
Mark Kelly made his name advocating for new gun laws after his wife was shot, but he didn’t play a central role in the big Senate compromise that passed last night.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The Problem Is Gun Culture, Not SCOTUS
A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public
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NYPD / Getty I Was a Police Officer for 20 Years. I Know What It Means to Put More Guns on the Street.
How the Supreme Court made cities less safe
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The Atlantic The Next Fight Over Guns in America
With Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, the only real remaining question is not whether Americans can carry firearms, but where.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Best Hope for Fixing America’s Gun Crisis
It’s not legislation.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty How Bipartisan Gun-Control Talks Actually Succeeded
Even skeptics were surprised by the scope of the compromise.
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The Atlantic The One Group That Could Make a Difference on Gun Control
The polarization of policing has made it politically difficult for firearm restrictions to pass.
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The Atlantic; Getty Don’t Forget the First Half of the Second Amendment
The amendment doesn’t prohibit gun regulations; it demands them.
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Win McNamee / Getty Putting Armed Veterans Into Schools Is Madness
Politicians need to stop turning to the military to solve every problem.
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The Atlantic; Getty Our Narrative of Mass Shootings Is Killing Us
Stories are where people have always gone to find meaning. We need to tell a new one.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty ‘This Is the Price We Pay to Live in This Kind of Society’
Seeing news of mass shooting after mass shooting can produce both a stress response and a cynical sense that nothing will change.
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Didier Ruef / VISUM / Redux We Need to Learn to Live With Guns
A passive Congress and hostile judiciary leave Americans with little choice but to change the culture of firearms.
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Dario Lopez-Mills / AP America’s Hands Are Full of Blood
Amid our pain and grief, we must face a bitter truth.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why Hollywood Can’t Quit Guns
How the industry moved on from the deadly Rust shooting
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Andrew Burton / Getty The Anti-gun Laws That Make Progressives Uneasy
Are provisions meant to keep firearms off the streets too unjust to enforce?
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Education Images / Getty The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America’s Murder Spike
A massive increase in gun sales in early 2020 seems to have contributed to the recent rise in homicides.
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Alex Wong / Getty What a Gun Is For
Lauren Boebert is using her family Christmas portrait to provoke liberal hysteria. But the photo reveals something much more significant about how America has changed.
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C-SPAN The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism
“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.
