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An Arab Israeli police recruit takes aim with her gun towards a screen displaying targets

In Israel, gun ownership is a privilege rather than a right

Conflict

A reporter from Texas shares what he’s learned about Israeli gun culture while living in Tel Aviv.

Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting

Las Vegas was hit by the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history

Conflict
Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli on Utoya Island five years after the Norway shootings. He says the biggest victory for survivors of the attack like him is that the summer camp remains open and a new crop of kids is arriving next month.

Your answer to mass shootings is to get bigger guns. To me that’s really strange.

Justice
An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

Do gun control debates ever change anything? In these countries they did.

Conflict
Lafayette shooting

Looking at the ‘virtue’ that drives some to kill themselves and others

Health
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