We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon anymore.
We are supposed to be afraid. Because fear drives politics, and gun sales, and emotions. And deaths.
In 2020 the national murder rate rose.
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