Class analysis is the most accurate lens through which to view the debate over gun control, which the most pliant elements of the corporate media now call by the focus-group term ‘gun safety’. The rifles and shotguns for sale in Alexander are used in a surpassingly small percentage of crimes, yet New York’s ruling class and its courtier publicists, who hate no thing or no one quite as much as they hate rural folks and the white working class, harass these people (who murder and rob at a rate so negligible as to approach zero) with an endless gauntlet of fees and paperwork and background checks and outright prohibitions.
When I worked at The Inquirer, a couple of my colleagues once said to me that I was the only person they had ever know who vacationed in the Midwest. They didn’t mean Chicago. They meant places like Soldiers Grove, WI. Well, I knew people in those parts, and I got to know more, and I found to be much more thoughtful and informed than our intelligentsia tends to think.
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