From New York’s Daily Intelligencer, Eric Levitz on the liberal case for allowing suspected terrorists to buy guns. Igor Volsky on how terrorist sympathizers exploit America’s gun laws. Joshua Keating on the time Al-Qaida urged its followers to take advantage of U.S. gun laws. Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. urges students to carry guns and “end those Muslims”. Ian Millhiser on Ted Cruz’s weirdly insurrectionist take on the Second Amendment. How the NRA is harming American security: Juan Cole on mass shootings as serial terrorism. David Roberts on why mass shootings don’t convince gun owners to support gun control. Who owns guns in America? White men, mostly. Kashana Cauley on what it’s like to be a black woman at a gun show. From ProPublica, Lois Beckett on how the gun control debate ignores black lives: By failing to talk about the majority of gun murder victims — black men — politicians and advocates are missing the chance to save lives; and on why counting mass shootings is a bad way to understand gun violence in America: It glosses over the broader reality of who is most at risk of being murdered with guns.
