”In 1919, the white lynch mob was the deadliest domestic form of white-supremacist terror. Back then a sizable number of armed and coordinated white supremacists were needed to slaughter a sizable number of people of color. Now it takes only one.
The lynch mob endures in a different form. The assault rifle is the lynch mob of one.”
Banning assault rifles and being antiracist is literally a life-or-death conversation now. One the more important essays I have ever written—my latest at The Atlantic.
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