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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 ...
A woman chalks a message at a makeshift memorial outside of Tops market on May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, New York.

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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