Placeholder while article actions loadMemorial Day was first celebrated as Decoration Day, three years after the end of the Civil War, to honor Union soldiers. Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway all tightened their gun laws after searing national tragedies. The Civil War ended 157 years ago, yet the alignments that led up to and defined that conflict are still very much alive in our politics. Today’s coalition against sensible gun laws is largely an alliance between the South and the non-coastal West. The fight for sane gun laws is, first, about the innocent lives extinguished by the failure of our politics.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2022 22:42 UTC