Guns/Weapons

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Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)
The Hamilton-Burr Duel
man with a gun in a holster
Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"
Mental Health and American Society
Rio's Ipanema Beach
A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
Jean Yocum.
Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.
Trayvon Martin was on the cover of People magazine in 2012.
Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.
Blood and Steel
A minuteman statue depicted on the Massachusetts state quarter
The Second Amendment Goes to Court
Col C.B. Winders shooting a gun in the 1910s.
Reconstructing the Second Amendment
An array of non-lethal guns laid out on a table.
Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment
Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division provide perimeter security for Iraqi policemen at a traffic control point in Tikrit, Iraq.
The Limits of Shock and Awe
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.
Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate
Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse.
Gun Control and the Old West
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.
Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics
an assault weapon sitting on a wooden post with mountains in the background
The Culture of Violence