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Why America fell for guns

26 mins | Apr 20, 2024

The U.S. today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership and rising firearm deaths. Megan Kang examines the root of America's gun culture and argues that hanging onto them as a venerable tradition is to misread history. Read by Emily Woo Zeller.

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