Future generations are going to have a very difficult tim...

Future generations are going to have a very difficult time understanding the early twenty-first century Republican Party in America and its relationship to gun and ammunition manufacturers: Frank Wilkinson: El Paso Shooter's Bullets and Gun Culture: "What the El Paso shooter���s hyper-deadly ammunition tells us about gun culture. The hyper-lethality of the bullets��is the point.... The 'manifesto' purportedly posted by the shooter accused of last weekend���s mass murder in El Paso, Texas... included a section called 'Gear'.... Along with his AK-47-style semi-automatic rifle, he cites an 8m3 bullet, which appears to have something of a cult following owing to its capacity to expand and fragment inside bodies, causing 'catastrophic wounds'.... It���s a sick soliloquy. But you can find others much like it. An anonymous review��at SGammo.com states that the customer���s��Russian-made 8m3 'works in all of my ak���s and is devastating in soft tissue'. Bullet talk is as revealing a window on American gun culture as gun talk���maybe more so. Consider this 2011 ammo review at Shooting Illustrated, the 'official journal' of the National Rifle Association.... Americans buy guns designed and marketed as hyper-lethal. They fill their magazines with bullets specifically manufactured to rip human bodies to shreds and make human lives unsavable. In 1993, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York proposed a huge tax increase on the most vicious brands of ammunition, pointing out that, unlike guns, ammunition doesn���t last forever. 'Guns don���t kill people', Moynihan said, 'bullets do'...

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