Gun Control

When It Comes to Gun Violence, Mental Health Matters and the Left Should Fight for It
In the aftermath of the recent wave of mass shootings we need a mental health overhaul and it’s the Left that needs to fight for it.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 13, 2022The NRA Exists to Keep Weapons Profits Booming and Guns in the Hands of the State and Right Wing
The NRA is holding its annual convention just days after the Uvalde school shooting. The group exists to protect gun industry profits and the state’s monopoly on violence, and keep guns in the hands of right-wingers.
Sybil Davis
May 27, 2022Capitalism Cannot Stop Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are directly linked to capitalist alienation, misogyny and racism. Only socialism can bring people together to reject the lies of capitalism and the many ills that it creates.
Julia Wallace
August 13, 2019“Going Postal”: Neoliberalism and Mass Shootings
Recent weeks have seen a wave of mass shootings, inspired in no small part by Trump’s racist scapegoating. Despite politicians’ attempts to blame everything from mental illness to video games, the fault ultimately lies with capitalism and its propensity towards constant violence.
Kevin Sapere
August 12, 2019Right-Wing Mass Shootings Are a Product of Imperialism
Dozens are dead in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy. The primary cause of this violence is not mental illness. This is about toxic masculinity and white supremacist terrorism—and a President who actively promotes it.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
August 5, 2019The Role of Grievability in the State’s Monopoly on Violence
In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, the aftermath has launched a nationwide movement against gun violence. On the surface it’s hard not to agree with these organizers but when we examine the policy demands set forth on behalf of the movement, there are apt critiques to be made.
Lily Cichanowicz
April 10, 2018The Movement Against Gun Violence at a Crossroads
In Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, Boston and other major cities across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of people, mostly youth, demonstrated against gun violence in schools. The movement stands at a crossroads: strengthen the police state and the Democratic party or embrace an independent program against state violence.
Jimena Vergara
March 25, 2018I Really Want to, But I Can’t Entirely Support the Walkouts.
Thousands of youth walked out to support gun control legislation. While I applaud their courage and mobilization, I can't support gun control.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 15, 2018What’s Behind America’s Gun Violence Problem?
As Marxists, what can we make from America's gun violence problem? Should we support calls for gun control?
Thaddeus Greene
February 25, 2018Obama’s Crocodile Tears
Hardly a week into the new year and the Obama administration has made headlines in two ways. The first, is the ICE raids of Central American families’ homes, often in the middle of the night, detaining men, women and children in detention facilities. The second is the timid expansion of firearm regulation through executive action. Obama defended the action in a speech in which he choked back tears as he talked about the Sandy Hook elementary school students who were killed by a gunman in 2012.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 8, 2016