https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Mass Shootings / Gun Violence en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/21/roundup-conspiracies-and-bad-ideas-caught-or-gained-momentum-2023 In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become influential narratives shaping public discourse and political agendas. QAnon , the… Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:42:39 EST Carmen Celestini, Amarnath Amarasingam 6e4679f3-e515-4063-92fe-063b4da3227e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/13/we-may-be-sacrificing-our-children-god-gun-its-not-god-requires-deaths You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord . Leviticus 18:21 As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are… Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:53:15 EDT Stephanie Frank 7eb3e12d-8bc0-4d16-9e00-0f898de93641 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/07/christian-nationalists-and-holy-gun-crusade In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment where we talk about the guns used and the need for gun control. And then rapidly, the gun lobby, conservative politicians, Second Amendment absolutists, and… Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:12:14 EDT Thomas Lecaque 82e36af2-096a-4be6-a863-ff2371c1f66d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/30/police-response-uvalde-prompts-question-serve-and-protect-whom Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde massacre most of the past week. I’ve been so focused on facts and arguments, I haven’t sobbed. But the tears came after reading a report… Mon, 30 May 2022 02:19:33 EDT John Stoehr 8108e5f7-af47-403c-9f36-b478773c79f6 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/26/what-hell-wrong-us-muslim-response-americas-failure-change More times than I can remember, I’ve had to ascend the minbar and address a Friday congregation reeling. Many Imams will do the same painful work this week. But for many American Muslims, Buffalo and Uvalde strike in other ways… Thu, 26 May 2022 05:38:32 EDT Haroon Moghul b45b46ea-2b23-403e-a826-850f61cf9b65 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/26/whos-really-politicizing-school-shootings You know it’s coming. Every time a mass shooting captures the American public’s consciousness, leading to demands for sensible gun control, one or more Republicans will attempt to “ shut that whole thing down ” with demands that we stop… Thu, 26 May 2022 03:35:56 EDT Chrissy Stroop 124edbd4-1f12-4583-b602-7b5d8ecbf9df https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/26/buffalo-and-uvalde-both-appear-have-involved-ar-15-rifle-revered-christian-right For the second time in almost as many weeks, a mass shooter used an AR-15-style rifle to kill innocent Americans. On May 14, PG allegedly used a variation of the AR-15 to shoot 13 people, 10 of them fatally. Just… Thu, 26 May 2022 02:45:10 EDT Brad Stoddard 0f524573-3f00-455b-8bfa-211b5e59e394 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/20/if-media-are-reluctant-properly-label-gops-racist-christian-nationalist-ideologies-well On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to kill people of color. He murdered ten people and wounded three others before he was arrested. All ten who were killed were Black. The racism… Fri, 20 May 2022 11:52:48 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 7baf028e-84e2-4d11-8a95-a7f4bb884b17 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/01/mainstream-pill The incel movement is a violent and misogynistic movement that has been rebranded with the help of mainstream media and academia, amplifying its violent rhetoric aimed at terrorizing women and destabilizing society. Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:18:44 EDT M. Kelly c46eb2b5-f462-43d2-b1af-5da97afa143f https://religiondispatches.org/2021/03/26/what-connects-racism-misogyny-and-faith-community-and-thats-bad-thing Since the murder of eight people at Atlanta-area spas on March 16, there’s been a fierce debate over the causes of the shooting rampage. Some, such as Ruth Graham of the New York Times, have pointed to the gunman’s exposure… Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:53:34 EDT Daniel Schultz 48c6fed6-b06f-4878-bb0c-63c47cd5da0b https://religiondispatches.org/2021/03/17/dont-discount-evangelicalism-factor-racist-murder-asian-spa-workers-georgia Today, America is still reeling from the news of the mass murder of eight people at massage parlors in Georgia. Many are rightly calling the shooting spree an act of white supremacist terrorism, as the victims targeted were Asian women… Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:35:24 EDT Chrissy Stroop cfb852fa-f3dd-4d2e-a776-8ad33eb4b24a https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/02/are-we-living-simulation-bad-religion-bad-media-combine-new-doc-glitch-matrix Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He is talking about the many coincidences of his life and how they led him to believe that he’s living in a computer simulation. We all… Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:13:45 EST Shannon Trosper Schorey 15540b78-e81c-4440-a262-647c47d2cc21 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/10/28/examining-antisemitism-one-year-after-tree-life One year since the Tree of Life shooting, hear from organizers and analysts on the front lines combating antisemitism through building solidarity and fighting for safety for all. What is antisemitism? How is it connected to other oppressions? How does… Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates d914e79f-6ce1-460e-bc44-c1bf3ad7a266 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/08/14/myth-lone-wolf-shooter-blinds-us-reality-white-supremacy Thinking of these killers as “lone wolf” actors makes it easier to dismiss them as demented individuals, hapless victims of bad parenting, self-destructive misfits, or erratic evil doers. But we need to see these “lone wolf” white supremacists for what they are—members of “wolf packs.” Wed, 14 Aug 2019 03:25:31 EDT Ivan Strenski 0628b67a-1ad9-4dfc-9f82-af3d195e037f https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/06/can-government-solve-evil-mass-shootings-response-mollie-hemingway Yesterday’s shootings at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas were horrific and especially cruel given the tight-knit nature of a small community. It was more than a little surreal to see Christianity Today report that, what is now… Mon, 06 Nov 2017 01:29:10 EST Daniel Schultz 9050ea24-d8e6-4043-a668-25c41dbcc0c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/03/no-way-out-ballot-box-why-partisanship-trumps-morality-gun-control-debate So here we are again, after Newtown, after San Bernadino and Orlando. This time the rampage is in Las Vegas, with more dead, more people hospitalized, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same… Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:34:30 EDT Daniel Schultz 9bb505be-e94f-4b64-8b21-96dd439c90d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/10/trumps-fear-and-loathing-wont-silence-nations-sole-lgbt-muslim-organization In the days of the Trumpian order, American LGBT Muslims, a minority within minorities, find themselves especially vulnerable to the forces of racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. As a member of this minority community myself, I can say that the burgeoning… Wed, 10 May 2017 03:57:43 EDT Omar Sarwar 4b7ca110-80f7-4cdb-9915-ebc1e07493b6 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/26/hillary-clinton-feeds-trolls When your opponents seem to exist for attention, how do you take a public moral stand against them? Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:28:32 EDT Michael Schulson e1db0fea-ec6b-420f-b3a3-abfbfcdfad44 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/25/queerness-christian-ethics-conversation-rev-elizabeth-edman If the mass killings in Orlando and in Charleston have anything in common it’s that both the dance club and the church were thought to be “safe space.” The horrors that unfolded in both places tell us that no place… Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:27:43 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge e07cd59f-2247-45c6-b622-975d288f5671 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/problem-we-all-live-bearing-witness-never-finding-justice We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we, as a nation, have not yet decided that we have reached the point where we will now practice willful and strategic eradication of the complex… Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:34:03 EDT Emilie M. Townes 3cb3b705-2189-4ded-b533-8aa778d960a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/06/why-even-progressive-christianity-must-own-its-complicity-anti-lgbt-violence One morning five years ago, I was sitting in my tiny cinderblock apartment on my seminary’s campus in the middle of Texas. Across my battered, thrift-store kitchen table sat my friend John, a fellow seminarian and an openly queer Presbyterian… Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:50:06 EDT Layton E. Williams b7fcfbb3-a2c9-4c29-b922-0fa89763d6c5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/23/not-all-muslims-are-terrorists-all-terrorists-are-muslim There’s three definitions of terrorism I see tossed around. One is simple: Violence by a non-state actor. Another is moral: Violence against civilians—usually for a political purpose, and often by a non-state actor. But another is just mainstream: A Muslim… Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:33:16 EDT Haroon Moghul a50e1a17-296b-4cbf-b67a-79e537175fba https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/22/are-we-living-through-world-war-iii Roger Cohen isn’t the first person to believe Islam is suffering a civil war. What’s actually happening is a lot worse. We’re in the middle of a Third World War. In last week’s column, “ Orlando and Trump’s America,” Roger… Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:51 EDT Haroon Moghul 3c3f412d-13ae-4653-b656-e657a88683b5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/21/orlando-tragedy-and-tangled-history-jihad-and-homosexuality The first jihad of the modern era was not against the West, but against gay Muslims. Tue, 21 Jun 2016 01:54:51 EDT Ali Olomi 2c15bf2f-858a-4f1d-a043-489ff01b839c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/19/condemnation-condolences-wake-orlando-massacre-and-more In this week’s Global LGBT Recap. Sun, 19 Jun 2016 02:38:39 EDT Peter Montgomery 1c882f4b-c09c-4b13-b64e-f6bddf61633e