Local Action!

The city has tried—and failed—twice before to pass local gun control. Is now the time to test the courts and state legislature and try again?

By Mark Dent
Ideas We Should Steal

Extreme Risk Protection Orders

In the wake of the latest school shooting, there is a common measure on the books in four states that acts as a temporary restraining order, but for guns. Can we at least agree on that?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Rumbling against Tyranny

Gun safety activist, advocate and self-proclaimed patriot, Maj Toure stands at the intersection of race, guns and politics

By Thomas Fox Parry
Citizen of the Week

Anti-Gun Violence Champion Will Little

The South Philly barber, formerly in prison for homicide, spent the month of August giving away gun locks with his haircuts

By Josh Middleton

Still not here, still not now

Another Supreme Court decision paving the way for more local gun control laws still doesn't change anything in Philadelphia

By Stephen St. Vincent
Ideas We Should Steal

Free gun locks

Gun locks prevent accidental shootings of and by children. Philly should follow the example of Boston and others in giving them away—or follow the lead of one of our own

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Not here, not now

Why a Supreme Court decision paving the way for more local gun control laws will not change anything in Philadelphia

By Stephen St. Vincent

Tackling Gun Violence

Philly is still too crime-ridden. We know how to combat it. Why aren’t the mayoral candidates talking about it?

By Jeremy Nowak