The adolescent cult of the AR-15 (original) (raw)
What do the perpetrators of the massacres at Sandy Hook, at Aurora, at Orlando, and at Sutherland Springs have in common? They were all men under 30 and they all used versions of the same kind of firearm, the AR-15, the semi-automatic version of the military's M-16 and the bestselling gun in America.
It might be difficult to make this connection because as I write this, the section on the use of AR-15s in mass killings has been deleted from Wikipedia by a user called Niteshift36, who claimed that including such a section at all was inherently biased. According to his user profile, this no-doubt scrupulous and disinterested editor of the world's most widely used work of reference is "proud to be an American," "a native speaker of the English language," "skeptical of anthropogenic global warming," and "supports concealed carry laws." He is also a veteran, a Tom Clancy and 24 fan, someone who thinks we should "say NO to political correctness," and a self-professed "Jedi."
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