{"id":10486,"date":"2016-07-18T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10486"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:01:08","slug":"the-gun-control-we-deserve-terrific-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/07\/the-gun-control-we-deserve-terrific-article.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Gun Control We Deserve&#8221;: Terrific article"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at n+1:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the deepest level, the schizoid landscape of American gun control is the product of two phenomena, both baked into the American past and protean in their contemporary manifestations. First, a long history of skirmishes over who should be armed and how\u2014fraught battles that pivot on questions of race, class, masculinity, and the role of law enforcement.<sup id=\"rf1-7651\"><a title=\"For an authoritative and frame-breaking analysis of gun ownership in relation to contemporary neoliberal configurations of citizenship (and masculinity specifically), see Jennifer Carlson\u2019s superlative Citizen Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline. My perspective here is deeply indebted to Carlson\u2019s work, and to conversations with Abby Kluchin, Sarah Jaffe, Alex Gourevitch, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Matthew Cheney, and Andrew Ryder.\" href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/the-gun-control-we-deserve\/#fn1-7651\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a><\/sup> Second, the synergy between American militarism and capitalism: a perennial entanglement that has produced a society in which there are more guns than civilians to own them. Together, these forces combine to make debates over whether or not guns should be kept in private hands theoretical at best and, more often than not, proxy conversations that distract us from ugly social realities and broken institutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/the-gun-control-we-deserve\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> (and hey look, this stellar piece even includes an invocation of \u201cgun violence as public health issue\u201d that doesn\u2019t obscure <em>state<\/em> violence or propose law enforcement as \u201ctreatment\u201d\u2026)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at n+1: At the deepest level, the schizoid landscape of American gun control is the product of two phenomena, both baked into the American past and protean in their contemporary manifestations. 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