Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic
The Atlantic Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic America must regulate guns not only to protect life, but to protect its citizens’ equal freedoms to speak, assemble, worship, and vote without fear. March 8, 2021 Hulton Archive / Kean Collection / Getty / The Atlantic Updated at 1:03 p.m. ET on March 8, 2021. Why regulate guns? The standard answer is that gun laws can prevent needless deaths and physical injury. But this is not a complete accounting. As gun-brandishing protesters and armed invasions of legislatures demonstrate, guns inflict more than physical injuries—they transform the ...
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