Newtown
It’s Midnight in Sydney and There’s Nowhere to Go
Anger at the city's lockout laws seems to be hitting critical mass. We visited Newtown on Friday to gauge this sense of frustration.
Why Wasn't Sandy Hook the Mass Shooting That Changed Everything?
For at least a few days after the tragedy that claimed over two dozen lives in 2012, gun violence took center stage in America.
Taking on the Sandy Hook Truthers: What Kind of Person Calls a Mass Shooting a Hoax?
Dogged by a relentless conspiracy theorist, one father has spent the past three years fighting to protect the honor of his murdered son.
You Might Need a Background Check to Buy Bullets in California After Next Year
An initiative that could be on the 2016 ballot in California aims for strict new regulations that supporters hope will jumpstart the national gun control movement.
Will Newtown be the Next Casualty of Sydney’s Lockout Laws?
Newtown, Sydney's hub on alternative culture, is bringing in self-imposed lockouts to deal with Kings Cross reveller runoff.
Can a Smartphone App Fix America’s Gun-Control Problem?
Unlike most entrepreneurs who make millions of dollars inventing pointless apps like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur named Mark B. Barron wants to use smartphones to solve America's gun violence problem.
Explaining America's Love of Guns to British People
In the wake of the Boston firefight, it's probably best to get a Yank to clear this one up for us.
A UK Company Proposes Using Smoke Screens to Prevent School Shootings
The solution "caters to every side," the company says.
The NRA Blamed Video Games for Violence, Then Made a Shoot-Em-Up Video Game
Because who cares about hypocrisy when you've got lots of guns?
A Christmas Thought: the President Is Godless
Last Sunday, at a high school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama gave one of the most extraordinary speeches of his presidency. In a room full of grieving family and friends of the victims, Obama revealed the limits of faith. Take the nods to...
Guns in the Sun
There are 270 million legal guns in the US. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of firearms laws, you might say that the situation presents a wicked problem—something that can’t be objectively solved or even described.