Tag: guns

“I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

How a malevolent, remorseless online troll and the shoot-first, ask questions later mode of policing added up to a real-life tragedy in Wichita Kansas.

Three stories on youth activism in conservative towns shed an interesting light on the national gun debate.

“Wyoming has more guns per capita than any other state, and more than 80 percent of adults in Campbell County have firearms in their homes.”

Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.

Despite its fear-mongering tactics to sell guns, the future of the NRA — and gun manufacturers in general — is in question.

Justin Quarry hunted for himself, and a connection to his late father, with the unlikely inheritance of a firearm.

In northern Albania, vengeance is justice, but does it get people something besides more pain?

For the residents of Nucla, Colorado, the enemies are the liberals next door.

Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms?

It is impossible to talk about guns without talk about race, class, and gender. This list is only the beginning.

Out-of-state residents can purchase firearms in Arizona read the sign behind the counter at Sprague’s Sports in Yuma. ASK US HOW. I asked a clerk named Ron for details. He was short, packed solid as a ham, with a crew cut and a genial demeanor. He pointed to the cavalcade of hunting rifles lined up […]

To begin to get a grasp on the economic toll, Mother Jones turned to Ted Miller at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, an independent nonprofit that studies public health, education, and safety issues. Miller has been one of the few researchers to delve deeply into guns, going back to the late 1980s when he began analyzing societal […]

We’re pleased to bring College Longreads back for the academic year. Even if you had a productive summer, you still didn’t do as much as the 2014 News21 team. The Carnegie-Knight News21 is an investigative multimedia reporting project based out of Arizona State but staffed by student journalists from some sixteen universities. This year’s project, Gun Wars, […]