
Gunpower Death Drive w/ Patrick Blanchfield
The Dig
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Is There a Hard Distinction Between Political Mass Murders and Those Without Clear Ideological Motivation?
Both the buffalo and ivalde massacres fit into the gun problem category. But does that distinction really hold up if both are linked to the same sick currents running through american society right now? Are they not all in some way fundamentally political? And even beyond the ideas in a particular shooter's head, the whole logic of these shootings tends to have a pretty obviously reactionary and anti social direction. Is there a hard distinction between political mass murders and those without clear ideological motivation? You know, i think we can be ambivint about this and think about it in two ways at once, vert productively, right?
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