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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.

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Todd Miller
Jun 02, 2022
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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.

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