Don’t Blame Our Second Amendment for Mexico’s Murder Problem

Published on April 2, 2024

Commentary It used to be anthropology meant digging up old bones and pottery shards to help us understand the past. Now it’s used to attack our Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms.” A new book from the University of California Press is: “Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border,” by Ieva Jusionyte. According to her biography, “Ieva Jusionyte is an anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University interested in the roles of law and violence in contemporary states. After growing up in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, she moved to the United States and has spent more than a decade in the field researching the borderlands of Latin America.”...