Posted July 1, 2022 3:00 pm by Comments

By TTAG Contributor

By Pierre M. Atlas, Indiana University
In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, 70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun violence, while 92% of Democrats and 54% of independents expressed the opposite view. Just weeks after those mass shootings, Republicans and gun rights advocates hailed the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated New York state’s gun permit law and declared that the Second Amendment guarantees a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense.
Continue reading Atlas: Today’s American Gun Culture is a Result of Mythologizing and Marketing the Old West at The Truth About Guns.

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