guns

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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."

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• SOURCE: TeenVogue
  5/26/2022
  

  The Forgotten School Gun Massacre in Stockton, CA

  Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.

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• 5/26/2022
  

  Historians on the Latest Mass Shooting and the Politics of Guns

  by HNN Staff

  What are historians saying about the mass shooting in [insert latest location here] and the politics of guns? 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  4/22/2022
  

  Politics as Usual Won't Stop Mass Shootings – A Discussion with Gun Culture Scholar Pat Blanchfield

  Our society has developed and institutionalized a set of public rituals of disbelief and incredulity around mass shootings that direct anger and pain away from organizing and let politicians off the hook. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/24/2022
  

  The Latest Technology Helping Gun Owners Violate Machine Gun Laws

  Nearly a century of legislation aimed at keeping the public from having fully automatic weapons is being subverted by internet trafficking in cheap devices that modify popular Glock pistols to work as mini-machine guns. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2022
  

  The Sandy Hook Settlement Could Transform the Marketing of Guns

  by Tracy L. Barnett

  The settlement between Remington and the families of victims does not accept fault, but it does establish the dangerous connection between the marketing of guns as totems of masculinity and the damage done by young men who acquire them with ease. 

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• 1/6/2021
  

  A Year Later: Our Tattered and Fragile Democracy

  by James D. Zirin

  American political institutions face a crisis: can they defend themselves against a growing movement that will deploy violence to achieve its goals, or will January 6 become the new normal? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/5/2021
  

  Forget "Ghost Guns" and other Media Panics. Gun Capitalism is the Underlying Problem of a Violent Society

  by Andrew C. McKevitt

  A long series of moral panics over the dangers of specific guns (and their imagined users) has hidden the real danger to Americans: the profitability (and legality) of selling deadly weapons.

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• SOURCE: Editorial Board
  11/15/2021
  

  Rittenhouse's Defense is Trying to Connect to a Long History of State Support for White Vigilantism

  by Mia Brett

  Police tolerance and even encouragement of the presence of Kyle Rittenhouse and other vigilantes on the streets of Kenosha in August 2020 was no anomaly. 

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• 11/15/2021
  

  Historians on the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

  As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial advances to jury deliberation, historians weigh in. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2021
  

  How Much is the NRA to Blame for the Gun Culture?

  Two new books help to shed light on how the NRA, partisan politicians, and the gun industry "took a political base of hunters and nurtured a new, expanded audience of gun guys," and how they made Americans live in their world.