This week’s defeat of gun control legislation was a potential pivot point that became more of the same.  We devote this issue to ‘post-game’ analysis, most of it written before the vote was taken, in some cases years before…

Gun Control, Mind Control

Our own contribution to the debate that was—sometimes it hurts to be right…

http://bit.ly/gun_vs_mind

What We’re Reading

The Atlantic’s Adam Winkler explores the secret history of guns, from the Founding Fathers—who both required guns and demanded their regulation--to the creators of the modern gun rights movement, the Black Panther Party…

http://bit.ly/gun_secrets

…in the wake of the last high-profile massacre to result in inaction—Aurora, Colorado—the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg wondered if the answer is more guns and more regulation…

http://bit.ly/moreguns_control

…even before the vote, Salon’s Blake Zeff explains all the ways in which the NRA had already won and, inexplicably to liberals, emerged from Newtown even stronger than before…

http://bit.ly/salon_nra

…while the New York Times analyzed the real secrets of Wayne La Pierre’s success, not the excuses progressives take comfort in…

http://bit.ly/nyt_lapierre

…The Wall Street Journal describes the defeat as "meltdown" and a complete rejection of a "liberal wish list"…

http://bit.ly/wsj_meltdown

…as the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen steps back to look at the big picture hocus-pocus of the entire debate…

http://bit.ly/gun_pocus

…Conservative David Brooks of the New York Times dismisses the importance of the episode as well, and turns to where he thinks the rubber really meets the proverbial road for Republicans…

http://bit.ly/brooks_next

…the Christian Science Monitor’s John Pitney confirms the real math behind the defeat—the calculations politicians feel compelled to make, because we make it so, and not just on gun control…

http://bit.ly/90percent_math

...and BusinessWeek explains why the Boston Marathon attack is only likely to make change that much harder…

http://bit.ly/boston_guns


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