Alexandra Filindra is Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. This interview is based on her new book, Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture (University of Chicago […]
gun violence
Imagine if the Christian right started offering mere ‘thoughts and prayers’ to end abortion
Four dead at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville today. That’s the 470th mass shooting in the United States this year–and it’s only August. I wrote this piece at The Washington Post after the 2019 shootings in El Paso, Texas […]
What happened at the NRA leadership forum this weekend?
We have a serious gun violence problem in the United States. While the National Rifle Association was meeting in Indianapolis, there were multiple-death shootings in Dadeville, Alabama; Louisville, Kentucky; Harrisonburg, Virginia; Honolulu, Hawaii; Spring, Texas; Orlando, Florida; Ahoskie, North Carolina; […]
Senate Chaplain Barry Black: “It is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers”
I am watching an interview with him on CNN right now. Here is his prayer yesterday in the Senate today:
Images of the Day
Andrew Clyde: Georgia ninth congressional district: George Santos: NY third congressional district: Anna Paulina Luna: Florida’s thirteenth congressional district: Thomas Massie: Kentucky’s fourth congressional district: Andy Ogles: Tennessee’s 5th congressional district. The home of The Covenant School: Lauren Boebert: Colorado’s […]
The shooting today at a Nashville Christian school: Some early responses
The Covenant School is an elementary school affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America. (Since the shooting this morning, Covenant Presbyterian Church appears to have taken down its website.) The school is a member […]
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey on guns
Over at The Washington Post, the Pennsylvania senator writes about how he changed his mind about guns after Sandy Hook. Here is a taste: I’m a U.S. senator who has done something rare in today’s politics: I’ve changed my position […]
Gerson: The GOP spin on guns is “wrong–morally and legally”
Here is Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom? A significant group of Americans believe it is. In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are […]