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Archibald: Carrying a Gun Doesn’t Make You Safer, It Makes You More Dangerous

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We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon anymore. We are supposed to be afraid. Because fear drives politics, and gun sales, … Read more

It’s Time to Acknowledge the Association of Guns With Violence

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  In the Politics, Aristotle explains how “heavily armed men” (hoplites) form the foundation of political order. Their violent coercion, even in the form of bloodless potency, overrides both the wealth of shiftless plutocrats and the inheritance claims of the gentry. Americans will recognize the colonial minutemen as our hoplites—not an inconvenient anomaly from America’s past, … Read more

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