Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History
Historical Blindness
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Mass Public Shootings Are a National Dilemma
After a spate of mass shootings by deranged postal workers in the 19 eighties and nineties, as well as since, the narrative around mass shootings was focused on work place shootings. The old terms spree killing, postal killing, work place shooting, sniper attack and even mass murder seem inadequate to really describe the problem. To clarify my position, i'm not urging total civilian disarmament. I guess we are just fortunate that there was not some outmoded constitutional amendment about the freedom of saddle makers to decide what safety straps to manufacture.
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