Sally Kohn: I agree with everything that you've said there, but aren't the guns themselves still a big part of the problem? Don't guns kill people alongside people killing people? So so what about, even if it's not remotely imaginable right now, even if the political path to get there are. Isit pretty unclear? What about targeting the gun industris production of guns? Yet, let me be very clear. But i want to point to how this is a a space where decades of strenuous commitment to the false horizon of gun control and a exceptionalist commitment to thinking of the us has made things really, really difficult.
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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