Gun nation: Inside America's gun-carry culture
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:21 am
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20 ... ry-culture
A combination of favorable court rulings, grass-roots activism, traditional fears of crime, and modern anxieties about government has led to what may be a tipping point on an issue that just a few years ago was one of America's most contentious. Gun rights have now expanded to the point where the fundamental question seems not to be "should we be able to carry guns," but instead is "where can't we carry them?"