—”Gun grabbers,” “gun nuts,” the Second Amendment, and the complex, snarled debate over the right to bear arms—
The Non-fiction Feature
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America
Author: Adam Winkler
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 361 | 2013
Like gun nuts, gun grabbers approach questions about firearms with militant ideology rather than common sense. To every crisis, they have the same solution: we must do away with the guns…Yet the individual right to bear arms has never depended on [the Second Amendment. Each of the fifty states has its own constitution that guarantees the fundamental rights of its citizens.
The Children’s Spot
Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
“But the worst part,
the absolute worst part,
is the constant slipping
of your tongue
into the new empty space,
where you know
a tooth supposed to be
but ain’t no more.”
The Product Spot
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
After the Uvalde shooting in May 2022, Congress passed and President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act–the first substantive gun legislation in decades.