Lessons of the 'Baseball Shooting': Gun Makers' Marketing Ensures That Gun Violence Feeds on Itself, and No One Is Safe
Guns are largely marketed to right-wing male power fantasies, but this latest tragedy shows that no one is immune. Wednesday’s terrifying assault on a group of Republican congressmen at baseball practice demonstrated that no one is protected from the violence that plagues a country where gun industry profits and culture-war politics have turned guns into fetish objects and have made reasonable gun safety policies nearly impossible to enact.
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