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    The Overlooked Role of Guns in the Police-Reform Debate

    Something is weirdly absent from the general discussion about police violence in America: the weapon most commonly used to inflict it.
    by Derek Thompson Jun 19, 2020 6 minutes
    Source: Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic

    Updated at 1:41 p.m. ET on June 22, 2020.

    The story I can’t get out of my head is the death of Philando Castile.

    In the summer of 2016, in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, Castile, a 32-year-old black man, was pulled over in a car he was driving, along with his partner and her 4-year-old daughter.

    “How are you?” Castile asked the approaching officer, according to a published transcript.

    “Good,” said the cop, a 28-year-old Hispanic American named Jeronimo Yanez. At the driver-side window, he asked for a license and proof of insurance.

    “Sir, I have to tell you,” Castile said, “I have a firearm on me.” As his mother would later tell The New York Times, she had instructed her son to “comply, comply, comply” with law enforcement. So he did.

    The statement made the officer nervous. “Don’t reach for it,” Yanez said. The gun, he meant.

    “I’m,” Castile

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