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How the 'good guy with a gun' became a deadly American fantasy

  • Written by Susanna Lee, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
A drawing of Philip Marlowe, an icon of hard-boiled detective fiction created by author Raymond Chandler.CHRISTO DRUMMKOPF/flickr, CC BY

At the end of May, it happened again. A mass shooter killed 12 people, this time at a municipal center in Virginia Beach. Employees had been forbidden to carry guns at work, and some lamented that this policy had...

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