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Honestly: What To Do about Guns
Texas Highway Patrol Troopers stand in front of a memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 27, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
06.15.22 — U.S. Politics
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Tulsa. Buffalo. Uvalde. Philadelphia. Chicago. And that’s just the past few weeks.

If you’re like me, you’ve had too many despairing conversations about the epidemic of gun violence in this country to count. This isn’t that. This is a conversation about what can actually, practically be done.

David French is a senior editor of The Dispatch and the author …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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