Tag: Gun policy
Taking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand
David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
54% of firearm deaths in the US are from suicide –...
Heidi Zinzow, Clemson University
More than half – 54% – of all firearm deaths in...
Guns on the ballot: How mixed midterm results will affect firearm policy
Alex McCourt, Johns Hopkins University
The U.S. midterm elections took place on the backdrop of surging gun violence and...
After mass shootings like Uvalde, national gun control fails – but...
Christopher Poliquin, University of California, Los Angeles
Calls for new gun legislation that previously failed to pass Congress are...
Why $73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
When can you buy a gun, vote or be sentenced to...
Laurence Steinberg, Temple University
Societies have long grappled with where to draw the chronological age boundary between adolescence and adulthood. The United States stands apart...
Why is there so little research on guns in the US?...
Lacey Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
On Valentine’s Day, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He killed 17...
The American public has power over the gun business – why...
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
As teenagers in Parkland, Florida, dressed for the funerals of their friends – the latest victims of a mass...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
