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11-Year-Old Killed In Nevada Road Rage Shooting

Stories like this get passed around by gun control groups as if they prove all gun owners are the same problem, even though the rest of us spend our lives trying to make sure situations like this never happen. What happened in Nevada is the nightmare scenario for everyone involved. An 11 year old boy was on his way to school, sitting in the back seat, and he never made it because a man with a gun couldn’t control his emotions. That family won’t ever be the same, and pretendin

Jordan

22 hours ago2 min read

When the Laughs Get Quiet: Men’s Mental Health and the Gun Community’s Blind Spot

The Month That Hits Harder Than Most Men’s mental health month hits the gun community in a way few other spaces ever acknowledge. You don’t have to dig very deep to understand why. More than half of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides, and year after year roughly 85 percent of those suicides are men. That’s not a talking point or a political argument. It’s the reality buried underneath every chart and report that people skim past on their way to the next debate

Jordan

2 days ago4 min read

You Can’t Be Anti-Fascist and Anti-Gun

The Core of Antifascism It’s impossible to be both anti-gun and anti-fascist because the entire idea of antifascism depends on ordinary people having the ability to resist state violence when institutions either break down or side with the oppressor. Antifascism has never been about slogans or symbolism. It has always been about communities defending themselves when no one else will, because history shows that no authoritarian movement ever stops at rhetoric once it gains mom

Jordan

3 days ago2 min read

It’s the Guns… Or Is It? Why We Keep Missing the Root of Violence

Every time a shooting makes the news, the same argument rises to the top: “It’s the guns.” It’s not hard to understand why people say...

Jordan

Sep 293 min read

The Threat to Trans Rights: A Call to Action

Understanding the Current Landscape We’ve lost count of how many times people have told us, “nobody is taking guns away from trans people.” They said it with smug confidence, as if we were paranoid or making up some dystopian fantasy. But here we are, watching the current administration float the idea of banning trans people from owning firearms. We fucking told you. The government has never needed much of an excuse to strip rights from those it deems undesirable. From Jim Cr

Jordan

Sep 42 min read