If These Two Could Become Friends…

What does America need on Thanksgiving 2025? Civility, kindness and open-mindedness, of the kind demonstrated by political enemies-turned-best friends Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh

By Courtney DuChene

How to Stop Women from Buying Guns Illegally

Women in Philadelphia commit less than 10 percent of the city’s shootings — but make up nearly a quarter of people arrested for straw purchasing

By Mensah M. Dean

Will Trump’s Budget Cuts Mean More Shootings?

Despite helping to slow bloodshed, several local gun violence prevention community groups are losing federal funding

By Mensah M. Dean

The Common Sense Gun Laws Stuck in Pennsylvania’s Senate

For the first time in a decade, three gun violence prevention bills passed the state house this year. Here’s why they still might not become law

By Mensah M. Dean

Where Do PA’s 2024 Candidates Stand on Guns?

Pennsylvanians are divided on the issue of gun safety regulations — as are young people. A group of Princeton students lays out the major party candidates’ views

By Mara DuBois, Frances McKenzie and Julia Stern

“Ghost Guns Are A Nightmare”

On the heels of settling a lawsuit with Philly, the nation’s largest manufacturer of controversial ghost gun kits has now been sued by a local victim’s parents. Are we finally catching up to the ghost gun crisis?

By Mensah M. Dean

A “Wake Up Call” on Guns

A District Attorney diversion program is offering a second chance to those with no prior convictions and whose only crime was having an unlicensed gun. It aims to work around a state law that treats Philadelphians more harshly than other Pennsylvanians

By Mensah M. Dean

Guns Don’t Kill People … Bullets Do?

In the wake of this week’s mass shooting in Southwest Philly, is it time to start regulating the sale of bullets rather than just repeating gun control rhetoric?

By Larry Platt
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Ali Velshi on Protecting Our Children From Real Threats

It's guns, the MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member asserts, not the knowledge that gay and trans people exist

By Ali Velshi
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The Doc Saving Us From Ourselves

Penn physician-scientist Kit Delgado applies what he learns from treating injured patients in the ER to changing the behavior that gets us there in the first place.

By Christina Griffith