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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 […]

Historian: The 2nd Amendment was to make sure the U.S. would not have to deal with a Prigozhin-type invasion

John Fea   |  June 27, 2023

Here is historian Noah Shusterman at The Washington Post: On Saturday, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, ordered his soldiers to withdraw from Ukraine and to instead set their sights on targets within Russia itself. First they took over Rostov, […]

The Author’s Corner with Carl T. Bogus

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 30, 2023

Carl T. Bogus is Professor of Law Emeritus at Roger Williams University. This interview is based on his new book, Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Madison’s […]

What’s the deal with those AR-15 lapel pins that GOP members of Congress are wearing?

John Fea   |  February 7, 2023

Will Bunch explains at The Philadelphia Inquirer. A taste: The sight in recent days of Santos and several of his Republican colleagues parading through the hallowed halls of the U.S. Capitol with a mini-celebration of a killing machine that serves […]

Former Texas GOP congressman Will Hurd: “I want more than thoughts and prayers”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2022

Hurd represented Uvalde, Texas from 2014-2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: We are not helpless, and if the people we elect to address our country’s tough challenges think nothing can or should be […]

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 […]

What we have said about guns and gun control over the years

John Fea   |  May 27, 2022

Despite what I have heard from a few folks in the last day or two, I think we’ve been pretty consistent over the years: May 28, 2021: When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue March […]

On “thoughts and prayers” and “God-given rights”

John Fea   |  May 24, 2022

I know I just reposted this piece a few days ago after the Buffalo shooting, but it continues to represent my thinking about these mass shootings. Here is what I wrote at The Washington Post in August 2019: In the […]

It’s time for gun rights advocates to stop “looking the other way”

John Fea   |  May 17, 2022

Conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen calls out his fellow conservatives in the wake of the Buffalo shooting. Here is a taste of his piece: Yes, it’s inevitable that some mass shootings will occur in any society with private gun […]

When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue

John Fea   |  May 28, 2021

Watch the Florida congressman in action at a recent rally: Actually… no. Here is Saul Cornell, our best historian of the Second Amendment, writing in 2012: The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without […]