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Gun Violence

A record number of mass shootings in the US has sparked a passionate new call for gun control reform.

Why fear of crime more than crime itself is holding back America’s downtowns

By Miles Bryan

What bullets do to kids

By Marin Cogan

What we know about the Nashville school shooting

By Li Zhou

Conservatives are using the tragedy in Nashville to push their anti-trans agenda

By Li Zhou

What an assault weapons ban could — and couldn’t — do to end US mass shootings

By Nicole Narea

What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?

By Muizz Akhtar

America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained

By Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and 1 more

How the March for Our Lives activists see the country now

By Siona Peterous

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

By Fabiola Cineas

New York’s restrictive gun laws didn’t stop the Buffalo shooter

By Nicole Narea

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Biden’s State of the Union 2023: Full coverage and highlights

By Vox Staff

It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

By Ian Millhiser

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

By Aja Romano

Asian Americans are reeling from California’s back-to-back mass shootings

By Li Zhou

Why older mass shooters like the California gunmen are so rare

By Nicole Narea

Why California’s strict gun control laws didn’t stop the Monterey Park shooter

By Nicole Narea

The legal loophole that could arm mass shooters with makeshift automatic rifles

By Ian Millhiser

Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ club kills 5, injures 25

By Ellen Ioanes

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Jennifer Doleac is helping us find nuanced, effective ways to fight crime

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?

By Peter Kafka

Alex Jones’s lies have cost him $965 million in a second Sandy Hook trial

By Aja Romano

Critics said nothing would change after Sandy Hook. Actually, a lot has.

By Marin Cogan

Gavin Newsom’s plan to save the Constitution by trolling the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

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A deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

By Vox Staff

3 takeaways from Texas’s investigation of the Uvalde school shooting

By Nicole Narea

The post-legal Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

How the Uvalde police failed

By Fabiola Cineas

Congress passes a landmark gun control package

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court’s new gun ruling means virtually no gun regulation is safe

By Ian Millhiser

How Hollywood validates the myth of the good guy with a gun

By Alissa Wilkinson

What the Supreme Court’s big gun case could mean for blue state reforms

By Nicole Narea

“We’re expected to be human shields”: Teachers are unprotected — and scared

By Fabiola Cineas

“Miracles sometimes happen”: The Senate hasn’t given up on gun control — yet

By Li Zhou

Red states aren’t following Florida’s lead on gun control

By Nicole Narea

What the TSA could teach Congress about gun control

By Rani Molla

Guns do more than kill

By Keren Landman

What does the Second Amendment mean in 2022?

By Ellen Ioanes

Blue states are responding to Uvalde

By Nicole Narea

How to prevent gun deaths without gun control

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

How to prevent another white supremacist massacre

By Fabiola Cineas