The Best Reporting on Guns in America

By Blair Hickman, Hanqing Chen, Lois Beckett, Cora Currier and Suevon Lee, ProPublica May 29, 2014 In the wake of last week’s shooting, we’ve laid out the most revealing reporting about guns. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Schlubs, Pick-Up Artists and Nerds: Hollywood Gets Its Close-Up in the Isla Vista Debate

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig May 29, 2014 As is always the case when catastrophic outbursts can be in any way linked to entertainment and mass culture, some critics have zoomed in on Hollywood as a fomenting agent for grandiose and antisocial delusions that wind their way into volatile minds like Elliot Rodger's -- and everyone else’s, for that matter. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Gun Nut Argument

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#YesAllWomen Are Speaking Up: How the Hashtag Has Started a Much-Needed Conversation

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 28, 2014 In the aftermath of the horrific Isla Vista slayings, which some have speculated were fueled by misogynist extremism, women in the Twitterverse have decided it's about time they talk about male privilege. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Women

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There Were 30 Murders by Firearm in England in 2012 (Equiv. 164) Vs. 8,855 in U.S.

Juan Cole / Truthdig May 26, 2014 The mentally imbalanced individual who Friday hunted down UC Santa Barbara students and knifed three and shot six of them to death, wounding with gunfire seven more, used a semiautomatic handgun. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What the Isla Vista Killings Have to Do With ‘Misogynist Extremism’

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2014 When violent eruptions like the killings in Santa Barbara on May 23 happen, discussions in the news often -- as they have in this case -- focus on individual culpability as well as the assumed (and often substantiated) mental illness of the perpetrator. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Shooting Tragedy in Santa Barbara Leaves 7 Dead

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 25, 2014 A 22-year-old man with apparent social difficulties is suspected of killing six people and injuring seven late Friday near the University of California campus in Santa Barbara. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )