Locked and Loaded
How Second Amendment mythologies—and the market—have taken over the gun-violence debate
Chris Lehmann
AS THE HORRORS OF THE SCHOOL MASSACRE IN NEWTOWN, Connecticut, had begun to sink in, and nestle their way into the broken anatomy of the American body politic, another shooting incident took place, this time in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Webster, on Christmas Eve.
The gunmen in both incidents were demented beyond the pale of culture-war distractions that often deflect attention from the plague of gun violence in
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