Editor’s Note: Dominic Erdozain is a historian and the author of ”One Nation Under Guns.” Follow him on X @domerdozain.
Burned out and disillusioned, Murdock now lives in Scotland, where freedom is a reality and nobody lives in fear of guns.
The death toll is growing because the weapons now available, and the right to carry them outside the home, are new.
With Reagan’s arrival in the White House in 1981, the conversation shifted from controlling guns to “protecting” gun owners.
A weapon that vastly exceeds the killing power of the Tommy guns banned in the 1930s is affordable and freely accessible.
Persons:
Dominic Erdozain, Stephen King, ”, Lane Murdock, Murdock, It’s, Marvin E, Wolfgang, Milton S, Eisenhower, “, Richard Nixon, growled, ” Nixon, John N, Mitchell, David Frost, Russell Peterson, Paul Soglin, Soglin, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Michael Beard, Bob Graham, Ann Richards, Richards, George W, Bush, Graham, Tommy ”, Patrick Purdy, There’s, Purdy, Barbara Bush, Grover Norquist, Heller, Franklin D, Roosevelt
Organizations:
CNN, Parkland, National Commission, Republican, National Rifle Association, National Advisory Commission, City Council of, House, NRA, National Coalition, Gov, Democrat, Democratic Gov, Slave, Firearms, University of Texas, ex, AK, US Army, FBI, Rifle Association, District of Columbia
Locations:
Maine, Scotland, America, United States, Delaware, City Council of Madison , Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, Vermont, Stockton , California, American, Detroit, “