The long history, very much continuing through the present, of official state violence. The distribution of arms is intimately tied to negotiations of race and a sort of jockeying for hierarchical positions within various long standing and new antagonisms. We are imperial hedgemon, but also a settler colonial state,. becomes much more a matter of degree and intensity, rather than a difference in kind.
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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