The right has embraced the post modern slippage of the signifier, says David Frum. It's all about disavowalnd not taking responsibility for what happened in Uvalde, he says. The police are that exemplarily for a lot of liberals, according to Frum. But there is an attachment to some kind of fantasy image of the good guy with a gun and the police, said Frum.
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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