Tag: Guns
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...
From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Gun rights activist Cody Wilson got a green light from the Trump administration in June to publish digital blueprints...
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...