Ladd Everitt

What do you call a law that allows a person to shoot and kill another human being when they could otherwise walk away safely?More

Recently, Conservatives have been making broad accusations that the Occupy Wall Street movement is “anti-Semitic,” despite no real evidence to indicate this is true. More

Those of us who work in the gun control movement understand as well as anyone why a push for nonviolence is desperately needed in the United States.More

Prior to this summer, you would have had to explore the darkest corners of the gun rights movement to find anyone openly exclaiming that “gun control is racist.”  This assertion—and the corollary allegation that the civil rights movement succeeded not because of disciplined nonviolence, but because African Americans were willing to take up arms against their oppressors—emanated mostly from obscure right-wing and libertarian websites like LizMichael.com or The Campaign for Liberty. More

Normally, when I debate representatives from the National Rifle Association (NRA), hostile questions from the audience come from those with a decidedly Libertarian bent to their politics. More

Professor Colman McCarthy, the Founder and Director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. once commented that, “The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence.” I was reminded of his words a few weeks back. More

One idea that I find intriguing is the notion that peace can be obtained through anarchy, which Webster’s defines as “a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government.” One of the original proponents of this concept was Leo Tolstoy.More