Jackie Calmes: Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court's radical revision of US history
Talk about a sad coincidence. On Saturday I spent the afternoon with a book on the history of the 2nd Amendment, then turned on cable news: While I'd been reading, millions of Americans were grocery-shopping; in Buffalo, New York, 10 of them, all Black people, were massacred, allegedly by an 18-year-old white supremacist with an assault rifle. Yet it really wasn't such a coincidence that my ...
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2022
3 minutes
Talk about a sad coincidence.
On Saturday I spent the afternoon with a book on the history of the 2nd Amendment, then turned on cable news: While I'd been reading, millions of Americans were grocery-shopping; in Buffalo, New York, 10 of them, all Black people, were massacred, allegedly by an 18-year-old white supremacist with an assault rifle.
Yet it really wasn't such a coincidence that my research for this column suddenly was newsy, given the regularity of gun violence in this country. Last weekend, mass shootings including , injuring
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