McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY'S PATREON
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get access to author interviews, content calls, discounts at our store, and more. Help support our writers and keep our site ad-free.
Home On the Range
2014 Column Contest Winner
Robert Lawrence is a long-time gun owner and former NRA member who received toy pistols, rifles, and even rocket launchers as a kid, but now sees his own kids banning toy guns from their children’s gift lists. A couple of years ago when a shooting range promotion coincided with a free concealed-carry licensing class, he and his wife found themselves propelled into Gun Mania culture and questioning everything about their roles in it. He recounts the stops along their journey here.
-
September 25, 2015Home On the Range: Shooting Dirt
-
August 28, 2015Home On the Range: Abortion Control
-
August 10, 2015Home On the Range: Envisioning Enemies
-
July 22, 2015Home On the Range: Shooting Holes in an Old Idea
-
June 24, 2015Home On the Range: The NRA Was Here—Until It Wasn’t
-
June 3, 2015Home On the Range: Coming In Heavy
-
May 12, 2015Home On the Range: Assaulting Misconceptions
-
April 20, 2015Home On the Range: An Arsenal of Weapons
-
March 31, 2015Home On the Range: Brother, Can You Spare an Individual Bullet to Stop a Collective Tyrant?
-
March 10, 2015Home On the Range: The Educated States of Jesusland
-
February 18, 2015Home On the Range: Smiling for the Gun Board
-
January 28, 2015Home On the Range: Gundamentalism
Trending 🔥
-
March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
-
March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
-
March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
-
March 13, 2025It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
Recently
-
March 28, 2025Although I Voted for You to Be Turned into Soup, There’s No Reason We Can’t Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied
-
March 28, 2025Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu
-
March 27, 2025We Are the People Who Buy Red Delicious Apples
-
March 27, 2025A Letter from Believer Editor Daniel Gumbiner