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gun violence

The Author’s Corner with Alexandra Filindra

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 29, 2023

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 […]

Imagine if the Christian right started offering mere ‘thoughts and prayers’ to end abortion

John Fea   |  August 26, 2023

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?

John Fea   |  April 17, 2023

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”

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

I am watching an interview with him on CNN right now. Here is his prayer yesterday in the Senate today:

Images of the Day

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

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

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

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

John Fea   |  June 9, 2022

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”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2022

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 […]