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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/29/2023
Mass Shootings Reflect the Narcissism of Young Men
by Tom Nichols
The injured grandiosity of "failed to launch" young men is pushing them to seek outsize revenge, often using the readily available guns.
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SOURCE: Inquest
1/10/2023
A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands
by Brian Behnken
Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/14/2022
After Bruen: One Nation, Under Guns
by Ryan Busse
"As bad as America’s gun-violence problem is, it could be about to get much worse," says former gun industry insider turned whistleblower. The selective reading of the historical record advanced by Justice Thomas's opinion would force judges to play historian to decide cases, destabilizing gun law in many ways.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
12/15/2022
The Orwellian Rise of "Suicide by Cop"
"Suicide by Cop" emerged as a descriptive phrase in the context of a crackdown on crime and an abandonment of police accountability, making a large portion of killings by officers seem natural and unavoidable.
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SOURCE: Substack
12/14/2022
It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture
by Heather Cox Richardson
"The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."
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SOURCE: The Forum
11/30/2022
Reactionary Media are Fueling Anti-LGBTQ Violence
by Ben Miller
When the media give a platform to the idea that trans people living in public inherently encourages sexual abuse, violence aimed at removing them from the public will follow. The media need to take responsibility for Colorado Springs and call out icitement to violence.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
11/28/2022
Forget Apology, the Right is Doubling Down on Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Americans
by Thomas Lecaque
The campaign of encouraging stochastic terror against LGBTQ communities won't be deterred by a tragedy like the Colorado Springs killings.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
11/21/2022
New Evidence about Texas's Porvenir Massacre
Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/14/2022
America's Tragic History of Campus Shootings Goes Back to 1840
John A.G. Davis, a professor of law, was killed by a masked member of a student mob engaged in firing pistols into the air to protest for the right to carry guns on campus.
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SOURCE: TIME
11/4/2022
The United States of Political Violence
From federal judges to local public health departments and school boards, violent threats against public officials are increasingly part of the political scene, according to Clarence Anthony of the National League of Cities.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
10/26/2022
Kidada Williams Joins Chris Hayes to Talk Reconstruction and Political Violence
"Ex-Confederates didn't let go of slavery lightly. They did what they could to hold on to it. And so, African-Americans largely had to fight their way out of bondage."
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SOURCE: NPR
9/27/2022
Law Professor Unearths Murder Cases from Jim Crow Era
Margaret Burnham has been appointed by President Biden to a five-person Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to increase public access to records of unsolved racially motivated crimes.
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SOURCE: CNN
8/29/2022
Fantasy Series Take a Selective Approach to Historical Accuracy as an Excuse for Sexual Violence
Medievalist Eleanor Janega wonders whether the creators of the "Game of Thrones" universe use historical accuracy as a justification to show graphic violence; their insistence on verisimilitude flags in other areas.
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8/28/2022
Stephen Aron's Work Examines Moments of Intercultural Peace in the West
by James Thornton Harris
Both triumphalist and revisionist histories of America's westward expansion emphasize violence, and disagree about whether to understand it with pride or guilt. But what can we make of the moments where understanding and accommodation temporarily prevailed?
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7/31/2022
The Highland Park Horrors Won't Break the Gun Cult's Mythic Hold on America
by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin
The myth of the armed citizen has little to do with the American revolution or the vision of the founders. It's all about the right's desire for a revolution to come.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/25/2022
The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer—Now They're Killing Us
by Ryan Busse
Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/15/2022
The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s
by Pia Beumer
In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.
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SOURCE: HuffPost
6/13/2022
The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
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SOURCE: WNYC
6/8/2022
Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde
Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/9/2022
A Marker Recognizing Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi is a Step Toward Justice
by Keisha N. Blain
As conservatives restrict the teaching of the history of racism in America, the town of Winona, Mississippi has taken a necessary step to memorialize the state-sanctioned jailhouse beating of Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists in 1963.
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