Shorter Pieces
Jonathan Ben-Menachem, “Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might,” 2020.
Monica Bell, “Black Security and the Conondrum of Policing,” 2020.
Daniel Denvir, “We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up,” 2018.
Mon Mohapatra, “The Uvalde Shooting Is Just The Latest Example of Why We Need Abolition,” 2022.
Brandon Absher, “Gun Control, Abolition, and Transformative Justice,” 2018.
Kenithia Alston and Emanuel Powell, “The Other Gun Violence,” 2021.
Nicole Jackson, “Police Violence and the Debate Over Gun Control,” 2018.
Kim Bellware, “Meet the Young Activists Fighting Chicago’s Gun Violence with Lobbying and Group Hugs,” 2019.
Elizabeth King and Aaron Cynic, “Community Investment, Safety Without Cops: Good Kids Mad City Organizes Against Gun Violence,” 2018.
Nathan Goodman, “Gun Control, Structural Racism, and the Prison State,” 2014.
Kenithia Alston and Emanuel Powell, “The Other Gun Violence,” 2021.
Benjamin Levin, “More Criminalization Isn’t the Answer to Gun Violence,” 2021.
Viewing and Listening
Dean Spade and Reina Gossett, “Gun Control and Producing Dangerousness” 2014.
Longer Pieces
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, 2018. [review of book linked]
Steve Ekwall, “The Racist Origins of US Gun Control: Laws Designed to Disarm Slaves, Freedmen, and African-Americans,” 2012.
Benjamin Levin, “Guns and Drugs,” 2015.
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