Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it.
WHEN I WAS 6 years old, I learned from my mother that my father had sometimes carried a gun. When he was a lieutenant in the Army, she told me, he would be “officer of the day” once a month. Usually soldiers didn’t walk around base armed, but when he was officer of the day, he was responsible for patrolling the barracks and had to carry a loaded revolver.
Further Reading: https://theintercept.com/2022/05/25/gun-violence-american-culture/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social
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