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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Science Photo Library … The Doctor Will Ask About Your Gun Now
More physicians are making gun safety part of routine visits. But should they be?
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Timothy O’Connell for The Atlantic To Stop a Shooter
Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?
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Adams Carvalho for The Atlantic The Death of a Gun-Rights Warrior
Bob Owens was one of the firearms industry’s most prominent, passionate defenders. Then he turned his gun on himself.
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Trent Parke / Magnum The Ineluctable Logic of Gun Ownership
I wish no one were armed. But if practically everyone is, how do we ensure our own safety?
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Peter Tandlund / Getty This Country Will Break Our Hearts Again
But Ralph Yarl lives.
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Wendy Sue Lamm / Contrasto / Redux The Problem America Cannot Fix
The public supports many sensible gun measures, but flaws in our democracy make us unable to adopt them.
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Photo-Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … The Gun
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Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle … What Active-Shooter Trainings Steal From Synagogues
I’ve long been ambivalent about the effects of such drills—but when one came to my synagogue, I felt compelled to attend.
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Eric Thayer / Getty The Mayhem Is Not About You
Most shooters don’t think straight. For that matter, most nonshooters don’t either.
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Andrew Wertz for The Atlantic Poverty Is Violent
Why are so many Black men shot to death in certain American neighborhoods?
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Getty; The Atlantic One Nation Under Guns
How this year’s Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment rights is changing everything
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Jason Connolly / AFP / Getty Rethinking ‘Run, Hide, Fight’
Our mass-shooting guidance may be woefully out of date.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Ad Industry’s Plan to Fix America’s Gun Crisis
It’s looking to the successful anti-smoking campaigns of the aughts to wage a new fight.
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Benjamin Rasmussen / The Atlantic Killed for Walking a Dog
The mundanity and insanity of gun death in America
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Getty How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-opt the Rosary
Why are sacramental beads suddenly showing up next to AR-15s online?
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Reuters / The Atlantic Should the Parkland Shooter Die?
A Florida jury will have to render a judgment only heaven can make.
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Spencer Platt / Getty; The Atlantic The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us.
Good marketing is supposed to generate demand. Bad firearms marketing has given us a national nightmare.
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AP; Getty; The Atlantic Texas’s Season in Hell
Summer in Texas is a tense, precarious time, and it always seems to build inevitably toward a catharsis that doesn’t arrive.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Where Is the National Outrage Over Uvalde?
Almost 50 days later, attention is moving on, but officials still haven’t explained how police failed so badly.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Illinois’ Red-Flag Laws Didn’t Stop the Highland Park Shooting
Making such statutes less porous requires approaches that are either extremely confusing or constitutionally problematic.
