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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
3/23/2023
Trans Texans, Fearing Violence Inspired by Legislation and Rhetoric, Look to Armed Self-Defense
Supporters of gender-related legislation deny that they want to eradicate transgender Texans, but members of that community fear that political rhetoric suggesting they are child abusers will encourage vigilantes who are already staging armed protest at LGBTQ events. Like other Texans, many are arming themselves.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/14/2023
SCOTUS Decision Means Today's Gun Cases Require Experts on 1790s Weaponry
Legal historians Saul Cornell, Jennifer Tucker and others are in high demand as a legal consultant after the Bruen decision elevated the historical meaning of gun laws to importance in the judicial process.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/9/2023
Originalism Will Kill Women
by Madiba K. Dennie
"Originalist ideology glorifies an era of blatant oppression along racial, gender, and class lines, transforming that era’s lowest shortcomings into our highest standards."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/12/2023
Why Guns Have Been Shielded from Consumer Safety Regulations for a Half Century
Gun industry lobbyists secured a carveout for firearms from the 1972 legislation establishing the Consumer Product Safety Commission, meaning that federal regulation can't treat guns like any other consumer product.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/10/2023
My Course Examines Why God and Guns Go Together in America
by Joseph P. Slaughter
Although there are many "peace church" traditions in American Christianity, there are many other historical strains that view violence as an appropriate and necessary means of securing the divinely sanctioned destiny of the nation.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/14/2022
After Bruen: One Nation, Under Guns
by Ryan Busse
"As bad as America’s gun-violence problem is, it could be about to get much worse," says former gun industry insider turned whistleblower. The selective reading of the historical record advanced by Justice Thomas's opinion would force judges to play historian to decide cases, destabilizing gun law in many ways.
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SOURCE: Substack
12/14/2022
It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture
by Heather Cox Richardson
"The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
11/6/2022
Why the States of the Confederacy are the Foundation of American Gun Culture
by Nick Buttrick
White Southerners' efforts to reclaim power after Reconstruction help explain how Americans think about guns: what they're used for, and whom they're used against.
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SOURCE: Letters from an American
10/12/2022
Can Jurors Hold Alex Jones Accountable?
by Heather Cox Richardson
Alex Jones's defenders on the far right claim the judgment is a political persecution. They must remember that the agents of that verdict weren't government officials, but jurors – American citizens exercising a duty to weigh facts and evidence. Maybe the excesses of MAGA need to meet a jury as well.
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SOURCE: Salon
8/25/2022
The Geographical Correlation Between Slavery Then and Guns Now
by Matthew Rozsa
A new study finds a strong county-level correlation between the number of slaves owned before the Civil War and the number of guns owned today. Is the answer in the violent history of white supremacy in the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras?
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7/31/2022
The Highland Park Horrors Won't Break the Gun Cult's Mythic Hold on America
by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin
The myth of the armed citizen has little to do with the American revolution or the vision of the founders. It's all about the right's desire for a revolution to come.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/25/2022
The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer—Now They're Killing Us
by Ryan Busse
Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities.
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SOURCE: Slate
6/24/2022
Thomas's Guns Opinion is Ahistorical and Anti-Originalist
by Saul Cornell
"Ultimately, the majority opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen is one of the most intellectually dishonest and poorly argued decisions in American judicial history."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6/24/2022
What SCOTUS's Guns Ruling Means for New York
Researchers suggest that the recently overturned New York state law did make residents significantly safer – from gun suicides – when it was passed more than a century ago.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6/9/2022
The Unity that Follows Tragedy Shouldn't Obscure Buffalo's History of Racism
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The invented image of a "City of Good Neighbors" has been a rhetorical one-way street in Buffalo, with calls for unity gaining more traction than calls for justice or equality.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/15/2022
The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s
by Pia Beumer
In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/26/2022
Other Countries Figured Out How to Reduce Gun Massacres
Australia, Britain and Canada took decisive and successful steps to reduce mass shootings since the 1990s.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
5/31/2022
Doug Mastriano and the White Christian Nationalist Cult of the AR-15
by Thomas Lecaque
The Pennsylvania Republican nominee for governor has connections to a church that merges radical Christian nationalism with the trappings of the militia movement and a fetishism of assault rifles.
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SOURCE: Current
5/27/2022
Pro-Life and Pro-Gun?
by Daniel K. Williams
Gun rights aren't intrinsic to evangelical Christian theology. But they are intrinsic to the individualism through which most white Evangelicals see the world and frame their political identity.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/31/2022
A Former Gun Industry Insider Tells How the AR-15 Conquered America
"About 1999, in the Columbine shooting, the NRA set its political course: We’re in the culture war business."