Built-in dysfunction is the only reason the vast majority of Americans cannot exert their will to limit the everyday carnage of mass shootings.

Advocates say there is more momentum than ever before. But nothing is guaranteed.

It’s not a mystery why the United States has a unique problem with mass shootings.

We’ve just become fatalistic about the possibility of politicians doing anything to stop them.

The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.

While most attention was focused on Biden, Warren, and Sanders, candidates at the ends of the stage brought big energy—and big ideas.

The right-wing commentariat keeps warning America that if lawmakers intercede, gun owners will have no choice but to kill cops.

At a moment when the president's racist rhetoric is motivating mass violence, Fox and all its friends saw a chance to stoke the culture wars.

As the influence of the gun lobby fades, the gun industry has found a new and perhaps even more powerful ally.

The Christchurch attacks point to a disturbing web reaching from the United States, to the United Kingdom, to Greece, and beyond.

How gun culture and radical politics are combining to produce a new kind of zealot

In a country where the violence of certain groups is tolerated, even encouraged, it’s inevitable that tragedies will follow.

The GOP's hand-wringing over "deranged" individuals distracts from America's real pathology: guns.

Their rhetoric is a symptom not only of religious hypocrisy but also secularized corruption.

This hard-to-find 1982 documentary about America’s addiction to guns and violence gets new life 35 years after its initial release.