Great post. A lot of national news reports are focusing now on support for political violence, typically attributing it to partisanship, dehumanization of political rivals, and other attitudinal factors. There's not a lot attention to the weapons that make the violence possible. (I recently came across a pair of 2024 studies linking gun purchases and public carry to support for political violence. Maybe we can't say whether interest in owning guns drives support for political violence or vice versa, but they're clearly interrelated.)
Great post. A lot of national news reports are focusing now on support for political violence, typically attributing it to partisanship, dehumanization of political rivals, and other attitudinal factors. There's not a lot attention to the weapons that make the violence possible. (I recently came across a pair of 2024 studies linking gun purchases and public carry to support for political violence. Maybe we can't say whether interest in owning guns drives support for political violence or vice versa, but they're clearly interrelated.)