Contrary to the imagery of the Wild West, Pierre M. Atlas says many towns in the real Old West had tougher restrictions on the carrying of guns than the one just invalidated by the Supreme Court.
Tag: Mass Shootings
Chris Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish
Armed & Ignorant in the Land of the Free
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
Mass Shootings in the White Noise of Anywhere USA
Hold the Teddy Bears & Candles
Beware Calls in US for Domestic ‘Terrorism’ Laws
Gun Rights and ‘Freedom’s’ Perversities
The concept of personal freedoms is relatively new to human history but has often, ironically, been exploited by people in power to achieve or maintain a sociopolitical goal, posits Lawrence Davidson in this analysis.