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Unique Pop-Up Shop Shows First-Time Gun Buyers Their Weapon’s Awful Past

Trigger-happy New Yorkers get a dose of history when trying to buy a gun.

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Fear and the Gun Lobby

If urban minorities and immigrants clamored for guns in the same way rural, white males do, would gun control be more popular?

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Research Finds That Guns Do Indeed Kill People

Evidence shows that the presence of firearms significantly increases the chance of accidental killings, non-stranger homicides, and suicide.

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Snoop Lion on Gun Control: End the Violence, Move Forward in Peace and Love

Growing up in the streets of Long Beach, I’ve seen lots of homies fall victim to gun violence.

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Angry Black Man? The Peacekeepers Flip That Image One Community at a Time

35 out of every 100,000 young black men between the ages of 18 to 24 years old are killed in homicide.

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Why We Love Stephen Colbert: Straight Marriage Bans and Pretending Everybody's White

From Google Glass for the common folk to banning straight marriage, this is why we love Stephen Colbert.

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Animation Intermission: The Ghost of Gun Control

Did you know that Ronald Reagan banned the carrying of firearms in public? Learn other fun facts from brilliant animator Drew Christie.

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100 Days After Newtown, Obama Wants You to Pressure Congress on Gun Control

"We need that action, and we owe it to the victims."

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Smart or Sad? Bulletproof Garments Now Available in Kids' Sizes

In the wake of the Newton, Connecticut shootings, a chilling fashion trend has popped up: bulletproof clothing and accessories for children.

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Can We Sue Our Way to Gun Safety? (At Least Let Us Try)

Even if I wanted to take the gun industry to court to argue for them (or other, more realistic measures) I couldn’t do so.

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In the Wake of Sandy Hook, We Need More Than Just Gun Control

The Sandy Hook tragedy is a much larger conversation about mental illness, lack of mental health services, violence in our community, and connection.

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Infographic: Armed to the Teeth

Gun ownership in the United States remains strong compared to the rest of the world and the debate over gun laws is more divisive than ever.