Chris Hedges: America's Gun Fetish – Consortium News

There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left.



By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost.com

Guns were a ubiquitous part of my childhood. My grandfather, who had bee

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