David French Is Wrong about Gun Culture

Perhaps it’s not the gun-rights movement that has changed.

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Handguns on display at the annual SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nev., in 2013.

Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/via Reuters

At the Dispatch, David French, who four years ago penned a defense of American “gun culture” for the Atlantic, writes that now

As evidence for this contention, David points to . . . well, that’s the problem. Nothing he points to is new. “What is a gun fetish?” he asks. “It’s a concept that’s tough to define, but easy to observe”:

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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