Robert Lipsyte: Take My Gun, Please
The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was a Beretta, similar to the pistol James Bond packed in the early Ian Fleming … Continue reading
Baron Wormser: The Mythos of the Gun 
Beneath the easy-going, have-a-nice day American exterior is some serious anti-social feeling that does not wish anyone who is somehow different a nice day, that wishes them a bad day, a you-shouldn’t-exist day, an I-would-kill-you-if-I-could day.
Abby Zimet: The Tools To Make A Change
Memorably marching for their lives. Reuters photo. Seeking to keep up the momentum to oust politicians in the blood-soaked pockets of the NRA, voting registration activists with HeadCount signed up … Continue reading
Video: Operatico Politico — NRA Protest Song
. Operatico Politico gives us a new protest song for the March For Our Lives on March 24th! Please like and share widely! Lyrics and guitar chords here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/traditi… Email … Continue reading
Nora Biette-Timmons and James Burnett: The Parkland Kids’ Gun Reform Platform, Explained
In an online petition, and in testimony by one of their leaders to a shadow congressional hearing organized by Democrats in Washington, the Stoneman Douglas students galvanizing the new teen movement against gun … Continue reading
Zenobia Jeffries: The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership
Many people of color are faced with uneasy support for a civil right that began as a way to oppress them. . Siwatu-Salama Ra, 26, will likely spend the next … Continue reading
Sandy Solomon: Little Letter to the Future I
In our time we reckoned our dead in firearms— handguns, rifles, automatic weapons; in much-parsed constitutional clauses; in politicians bought by lobbyists and salesmen. In our time, we objected most … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Of Guns And Our Crazy Neighbor
I teach in Belleville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. Belleville is the home of James Hodgkinson, the man who opened fire on congressmen and staffers at a G. O. … Continue reading
Peter Van Buren: U.S. Cops Already Killed More Since Xmas Than UK Cops Have Killed in Five Years
I love my readers, and want you all to have a safe 2016. So here’s some advice, assuming you don’t want to be murdered by your police: move to the … Continue reading
Robin Williams performing at the Met: Gun Crazy Culture
Performing at the Met in New York, Robin Williams sheds light on America’s gun crazy culture.
