Why is American masculinity at the center of gun culture, but not the gun debate? By N
Posted on AllSides July 15th, 2019
From The Left
The 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, in which a gunman killed 17 people and wounded more than 30, is considered to be the first mass shooting of the modern era.
In the subsequent decades, the conversation around guns violence in America has cycled through the same topics, from arming teachers to the meaning of the Second Amendment. But these tragedies have more in common than the rhetoric that follows them – all but three were committed by men.
Gun deaths in the U.S. neared 40,000 in 2017. Most were...
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