American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On

American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On - James Fallows, Atlantic: Guns uniquely allow a psychopath in America to wreak death and devastation on such a large scale so quickly and easily. America is the only country in which this happens again -- and again and again. No one has been killed on American soil through what we define as an act of "terrorism" in more than a decade, but countless elements of our life are still shaped and warped by the open-ended "war on terror."