Guns, in other words, are not just threats to public health; they are threats, as historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes, to the “strong civic culture and a public sphere conducive to social trust and altruism” that healthy democracies require. [More]
He starts with a faulty premise and goes downhill from there.
Aaron Zelman had a term for such as Metzl and Ben-Ghiat.
[Via Jess]
