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- Title
The Adulation of the Gun: How Border Militarization Fuels America's Gun Obsession.
- Authors
Miller, Todd
- Abstract
This was a lesson learned in 2008 by Vermont senator Patrick Leahy, when he found himself ordered out of his car by a Border Patrol agent. The Border Patrol agent who shot and killed the Uvalde gunman was from the agency's special forces unit known as BORTAC. They learn how to pursue "intruders" in the desert, as a Border Patrol agent told me when I was reporting on the Explorers for my book Border Patrol Nation.
- Subjects
AMERICA; SCHOOL shootings; BORDER patrol agents; MILITARISM; MASS shootings; FIREARMS; BORDER patrols; IMMIGRATION detention centers; DEHUMANIZATION
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article