guns
America’s Gun Mythology
The gun rights movement has hardened under Trump’s watch, and he has benefited from that hardening. Groups from neo-Nazis to the National Rifle Association have radicalized gun owners by spreading myths that demonize gun control. Pro-gun ideologues and leaders have invented their own gospel of gun rights.
America Lags Badly on Gun Laws
As I grew up in Pakistan in the 1980s, gun culture was a big deal, as large a presence in society as it is in America. Guns were to men what jewelry was to women. It took the emergence of a real threat to change Pakistan. Can America similarly adapt?