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school shootings
May 27, 2022
Matt Ford
Taking Cues From Texas, California Proposes Its Own Bounty Law—Against Guns
If it passes, the Golden State would set up a confrontation with the Supreme Court, which blessed the Lone Star State’s anti-abortion law.
May 26, 2022
Grace Segers
Republicans Return to “Hardening” Schools as Their Solution to Shootings
What’s the answer to gun violence? More guns, naturally.
May 25, 2022
Grace Segers
“We Are Caught in the Most Perverse Version of
Groundhog Day
”
Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.
May 25, 2022
Timothy Noah
My Letter to the Victims of the Next School Shooting
I’d like to save your lives, whoever you are, but I can’t. A reactionary electoral minority is blocking the way.
May 25, 2022
Alex Shephard
Americans Aren’t Numb to Mass Shootings
We’ve just become fatalistic about the possibility of politicians doing anything to stop them.
November 2, 2018
Robert Foyle Hunwick
Why Does China Have So Many School Stabbings?
Knife or axe-attacks on children are distressingly common.
October 3, 2018
Jeet Heer
Private companies want to militarize American schools.
February 16, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Mental Health Scapegoat
The GOP's hand-wringing over "deranged" individuals distracts from America's real pathology: guns.
October 1, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Condolences and Prayers: How Republicans Ignore Gun Control After Mass Shootings
August 16, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Latest in Gun Control: Bullet-Resistant Classroom Whiteboards!
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