The Adulation of the Gun: How Border Militarization Fuels America's Gun Obsession

From Uvalde, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, Border Patrol's BORTAC is part of a growing homeland security army.

This is the second part of this week’s series looking at the Uvalde shooting through the perspective of the borderlands. Please check out Melissa’s piece “Guns to Garden Tools: A New National Movement Takes Root in the Borderlands” from Tuesday.