Douthat: The Young and Socially Awkward Should Undergo Enhanced Screening Before Becoming Gun Owners

To fully understand a problem like terrorism, you need to accept complexity, a sprawl of general factors — personal, historical, cultural — converging in a specific movement or a single actor. The kind of mass-murdering, effectively-suicidal terrorism that has taken hold in America in the 23 years since Columbine is no different, even if it … Read more

Many Believe More Mental Health Spending Will Reduce Firearms Deaths. Don’t Be So Sure

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes: One of the areas where the pro and anti gun sides agree in many cases is the presumption that somehow mental health remedies can produce fewer deaths and injuries that result from firearms, especially mass shootings (events where large numbers of victims are involved, but the term … Read more

Walk The Talk America Attempts to Build Bridge Between Firearms and Mental Health Industry

Press release: Non-profit Walk The Talk America is acting to bring caring firearms-related companies together with mental health programs in need, changing to help those suffering from mental health issues. The issue of firearms ownership is clearly one of the issues that creates the most passionate emotional response from both sides of America’s political spectrum. Walk … Read more