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Sean Krajacic / Getty Of Course Kyle Rittenhouse Was Acquitted
It is one thing to argue that the jury reached a reasonable verdict based on the law, and another entirely to celebrate Rittenhouse’s actions.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The Unanswered Questions of the Rittenhouse Verdict
Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial ends in acquittal. The moral questions it raised linger.
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Sean Krajacic / Getty Kyle Rittenhouse’s Acquittal Does Not Make Him a Hero
The verdict is not a miscarriage of justice—but an acquittal does not make a foolish man a hero.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Second Amendment Has Become a Threat to the First
Firearms are having a documented chilling effect on free speech.
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David Ryder / Getty Guns—Even Props—Are Not Toys
Following gun-safety rules is always imperative, even on a movie set.
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Bleecker Street How to Have an Impossible Conversation
The events in Mass are spurred by a school shooting, but the film’s true focus is the challenge of talking through grief.
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Gabriela Pesqueira How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns
The way to reduce gun violence is by convincing ordinary, “responsible” handgun owners that their weapons make them, their families, and those around them less safe.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty; Mike … I’m Not Afraid of COVID-19. I’m Afraid of School Shootings.
I’m eager to get back to the classroom, but my fear is overcoming my excitement.
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Hoptocopter / Getty After 11 Minutes in America, I Got Hit by the Crime Wave
I spent most of the pandemic abroad. It didn’t take long after I returned home for someone to try to rob me at gunpoint.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty Biden Doesn’t Have an Answer to America’s Crime Spike
The president has few levers he can pull on to reduce the country’s murder rate.
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Alex Wroblewski The Numbers Tell a Different Story About Police Killings of Minors
Exaggerated narratives could yield misguided policy responses—which would endanger many more kids.
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The Atlantic Calling the Atlanta Shootings a Hate Crime Isn’t Nearly Enough
The term does more to narrow the definitions of racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia than to expand our understanding of what hate crimes actually are.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty America Can’t Exhale Just Yet
Demonstrations across the country after the Capitol riot were small, but more violence may soon come.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams
The NRA and its allies have argued for years that citizens need to arm themselves for a fight against tyranny.
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The Atlantic Gun Laws Are the Key to Addressing America’s Suicide Crisis
When someone feels an impulse to harm himself, reduced access to lethal weapons can make all the difference in the world.
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Alex Lourie/Redux Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha, and the Sheepdog Mentality
Rittenhouse appears to live in a fantasy world where police and car dealerships are more endangered than unarmed Black men, and where he is a warrior.
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Overlooked Role of Guns in the Police-Reform Debate
Something is weirdly absent from the general discussion about police violence in America: the weapon most commonly used to inflict it.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Guns Are No Mere Symbol
Protesters gathered at the Virginia state capitol on Monday to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they did so in a way that took away the First Amendment rights of others.
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Interscope Records / Aftermath Eminem Slips Into the Mind of the Las Vegas Shooter
The rapper’s “Darkness” video tries to fight gun violence while also glorifying it.
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Andrew Chung / Reuters The Age of the ‘Dead Parrot’ Supreme Court Case
Conservative activists keep asking the Court to hear cases that are already irrelevant—and, worryingly, the Court keeps saying yes.
