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@drewmckevitt on his current book project exploring the role of gun violence in U.S. foreign relations in the postwar era (a thread) #DWH
Gun culture as a *reaction* to gun control - in the postwar world of the 1960s. The racial conflict of the 60s politicizes and radicalizes the NRA and gun-owner identity.
No one examines gun history as a material history.
100s of millions of guns in the US - what does that mean??? No one ever wrestles with the numbers and the exponential growth of those numbers from 1945 to today.
100s of millions of guns in the US - what does that mean??? No one ever wrestles with the numbers and the exponential growth of those numbers from 1945 to today.
We don't think about the big business of guns. The 1968 gun control law included a provision that made it harder to import guns. When he was a senator, JFK tried to pass a law in 1958 that would've banned the war-surplus gun that killed him. 
Shooting cans is called "plinking." 
There was a concern in the 60s over radical white anti-communist groups who were going off into the hills with arsenals of war-surplus guns.
But somehow in the 70s urban crime and hand guns became the focus. The "Saturday Night Special became equated with black criminals in urban areas holding up defenseless white ppl.
Warrior Dreams by James William Gibson covers the
80s/90s - when ppl begin buying automatic weapons. This phenom is posited as compensating for the US defeat in Vietnam by creating a warrior culture - advent of the militarization of American culture.
80s/90s - when ppl begin buying automatic weapons. This phenom is posited as compensating for the US defeat in Vietnam by creating a warrior culture - advent of the militarization of American culture.
I just noticed @drewmckevitt is wearing a @Phillies t-shirt...
