“Where there’s political will, the genie can be put back in the bottle. There was abolition of the slave trade even at the height of its profitability in Britain because there was sufficient political will. Governments worldwide depend on American civilians continuing to be able to buy guns for the sake of the health of gun manufacturers around the world. But I don’t think that means it’s impossible to find a way to put the genie back in the bottle, even here.” – Priya Satia in Guns: the Genie and the Bottle [via bigthink.com]
Dreaming of Undoing the Firearms Industrial Revolution
courtesy stanford.edu