Pierson: Every Photo Of a Politician Holding a Gun Makes the Founders Sad

Where did America go wrong? The problem isn’t the guns. The problem is us. Our taste for gun violence is a uniquely American crisis. And I say that as someone who has lived in Switzerland, a country armed to the teeth but with zero school shootings, annually.  It is the sense of exceptionalism our nation is known … Read more

Aleem: Massie’s and Boebert’s Christmas Cards ‘Normalize a Spectacle of Vigilantism’

[T]he power of these images lies not just in the guns but who can wield them with cultural impunity, and toward what end. On the latter point, these photos speak to a troubling kind of cultural and political outlook. I don’t own a gun, and I think America would be much safer if it disarmed like Australia or regulated guns … Read more