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Politics & SocietyShort Take
James Martin, S.J.
Gun control is about the defense of life.
A couple attends a candlelight vigil at the Columbine Memorial in Clement Park in Littleton, Colo., April 19, 2009, the eve of the 10th anniversary of tragic shootings at Columbine High School. (CNS photo/James Baca, Denver Catholic Register) 
FaithFaith in Focus
Kathy Coffey
Perhaps the N.R.A. has met its match. All the money in the world cannot contend with the rage of a mother torn from her child.

From as early as the 1960s, the editorial board of America, as well as a variety of authors writing in print and online, have taken up the heated issue of gun control.

But America was not simply concerned with public policy—that is, tackling the complicated political issues around gun control (particularly Second Amendment rights) as a way of lessening the violence. The magazine has also approached the issue from what might be called a spiritual point of view. Here is a collection of some of our best content on gun control.