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• Violences (USA)

  Growing Gun Violence in the United States

  1 December 2022, by SHEPPARD Barry

  In June, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that restricted carrying guns in public. Since then, 38 states have some form of open carry laws, and legislatures in others are preparing to do the same.
  Already known for its “Wild West” gun culture, this only increases gun violence in the (...)

• Violences (USA)

  United States: American gun culture is based on frontier mythology – but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West

  29 June 2022, by ATLAS Pierre M.

  A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
  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 (...)

• Violences (USA)

  United States: Massacres, militarism and the culture of cruelty

  14 June 2022, by HEARSE Phil

  Phil Hearse writes we have to go deeper, if we really want to understand why the US is stuffed with guns, violence is accepted as just a part of mainstream culture and weapons are fetishised symbols of hyper-masculinity.
  In the light of the recent spate of mass shootings in the United States, (...)