Chris Hedges explains how guns became such an important part of the American culture.
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🌍 Story adapted from article by Chris Hedges ⟹ chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish
0:00 - My Early Experience With Guns
0:27 - America's Gun Culture
1:18 - Why People Cling To Their Guns
2:55 - How White People Built Their Supremacy
3:34 - Why The Second Amendment Was Designed
4:13 - The Myth That Fuels Mass Shootings
5:44 - The Path Forward
Transcript:
Guns were a ubiquitous part of my childhood. Like many boys in rural America, I was fascinated by guns, although I disliked hunting. Two decades as a reporter in war zones, however, resulted in a deep aversion to weapons. I saw what they did to human bodies.
America’s gun fetish and culture of vigilante violence makes the U.S. very different from other industrialized nations. This is the reason there will never be serious gun control. It does not matter how many mass shootings take place, how many children are butchered in their classrooms, or how high the homicide rate climbs.
There are nearly 400 million guns in the U.S., some 120 guns for every 100 Americans. Half of the privately-owned guns are owned by 3 percent of the population.
Guns made lower working-class people feel powerful, even when they were not. Take away their guns and what was left? Decaying small towns, shuttered textile and paper mills, dead-end jobs, seedy bars where veterans drank away their trauma. Take away the guns, and the brute force of squalor, decline, and abandonment hit you in the face like a tidal wave.
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