Tag: Guns
Why Trump’s idea to arm teachers may miss the mark
Aimee Huff, Oregon State University and Michelle Barnhart, Oregon State University
President Donald Trump’s proposal to arm teachers has sparked substantial public debate.
As researchers of...
How the firearms industry influences US gun culture, in 6 charts
Michael Siegel, Boston University
Americans have blamed many culprits, from mental illness to inadequate security, for the tragic mass shootings that are occurring with increasing...
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...
In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy
Mark Gottdiener, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
In Sin City, people often do bad things to themselves.
Rather than deal with...
How the US government created and coddled the gun industry
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more...
2015, the year that was: politics and society
Emily Costello, The Conversation
As we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s politics and society desk over the past...
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...
