No, There Is No Nuanced Version of the Second Amendment Insurrectionist View
by Neil H. Buchanan A week ago today, an eighteen-year-old armed with a weapon that would be nearly impossible to obtain in most countries killed 19 children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas. The Washington Post reports that there were at least fifteen mass shootings in the United States in the six days after that horrific slaughter, with twelve of the shootings taking place over the Memorial Day weekend (a grimly apt name for that holiday this year). The public's reaction to, and focus on, the Uvalde massacre has lasted longer than expected, with political reaction being more intense than anything we have seen since at least the Parkland killings in Florida four years ago. With all of that attention, is there anything happening in the public debate that is different this time around? On some level of generality, of course not. The mind-numbing sameness of these tragedies is a big part of what makes it possible for cynical politicians to refuse to act, rel...