Gun Violence

The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy

May 16, 2022

If we look at shooters like the one in Buffalo as the only type of people to whom the phrase “white supremacist” applies, then we miss all the daily and common ways that countless others endorse the same ideas that undergirded his murderous actions.

The Best Defense…

Rosalind Hughes

February 23, 2022

Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

What if we were to attack instead of retreat? What if, in place of despair or even a secure defense, we were to perpetrate an all-out offensive on the things that threaten to divide us: antisemitism, racism, domestic (what a word) violence, the prevalence, and ease of acquisition of guns, America’s preferred instrument of destruction?

The New War on Christmas

Shane Claiborne

December 14, 2021

Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

This week also marks the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting (December 14), one of those all-too-familiar moments when our country said, “Never again”… and then let it happen again and again.