GUNS IN AMERICA

SINCE OCTOBER 2017, America has experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides with a frightening resurgence of white nationalism. Sometimes the two trends overlap.

But why America ? Both phenomena can be explained by a common historical thread—to unravel it Abby Martin sits down with indigenous scholar Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss her latest book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.

This is the first independently produced Empire Files, funded by the kind donations of its many supporters.