How the Supreme Court Gave the Capitol Insurrection a Green Light

In 2008, the court’s watershed Second Amendment decision made right-wing militias’ fantasies seem real

Kurt Andersen
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4 min readFeb 22, 2021

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When I was a kid, more than twice as many Americans went hunting as they do now, and twice as many had guns. Now only one in four own a gun — but the average gun owner today doesn’t…

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Kurt Andersen
GEN
Writer for

Award-winning, bestselling author (Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century) and creator of media (Studio 360, Inside, SPY).