Tag: Guns
Firearm-makers may finally decide it’s in their interest to help reduce...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Mass shootings have become a routine occurrence in America.
Gun-makers have long refused to take responsibility for their role in...
World’s deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
What is the deadliest weapon of the 20th century?
Perhaps you think first of the atomic bomb, estimated to have killed as...
Increasing numbers of Americans support gun background checks
Kent E. Portney, Texas A&M University and Carol L. Goldsmith, Texas A&M University
In the aftermath of the shootings in El Paso, Texas,...
The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches
Robert Myers, Alfred University
In a manifesto posted online shortly before he went on to massacre 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, Patrick Crusius...
Could a national buyback program reduce gun violence in America?
Lacey Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
Americans own nearly half of the world’s guns, with approximately 120 firearms for every 100 U.S. residents.
Gun control policies may...
How the ‘good guy with a gun’ became a deadly American...
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
At the end of May, it happened again. A mass shooter killed 12 people, this time at a municipal center in...
Colorado shooting eerily recalls Columbine massacre
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Columbine. Contagion. Clusters.
These are the culprits to consider as the nation reels from...
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
