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Historical Blindness

Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4839 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I look at the history of gun culture in America, gun ownership as a social identity, and the long history of gun control legislation passed in response to outrageous acts of gun violence.  Pledge support on Patreon to get ad-free and exclusive episodes. Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!  And check out the show merch! Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode is copyright Alex Kish. Contact him at alexkishmusic.com to get music for your own projects. Other music, including "Remedy of Melancholy," "Tumult," "Seeker," "Wake Up," "Oneiri," "Nothing (Bonus Track)," and "Cold War Echo" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). Additional Music:  "Maestro Tlakaelel" by Jesse Gallagher, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0). "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Warning, if you or someone you know has been a victim of gun violence, you may be particularly

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troubled by the subject of this episode, but you may also be especially interested in its content.

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In Manhattan, in January of 1911, satirical novelist and muck-raking journalist David Graham Phillips

1:20.7

took his usual route from his Gramercy Park apartment to the Princeton Club, a private club for the Ivy League

1:29.0

University's alumni. Phillips cut a tall and impressive figure, wearing light summer suits

1:36.4

in winter, handsome with striking pale eyes. When he arrived at the club, a man he did not know

1:43.9

approached him, lifted a handgun, and fired several bullets into Phillips, crying out, here you go, before shooting himself in the head.

1:54.6

As Phillips slowly died from his gunshot wounds, he expressed confusion about who his murderer had been, but police

2:02.6

had little trouble determining the motive, remembering that Phillips had not long ago come to

2:08.1

them about a series of threatening letters he'd received.

2:11.9

His killer was Fitzhue Goldsboro, the deranged son of a wealthy family, whom he believed Phillips was

2:19.7

lampooning in his fiction, some of which satirized, rich entitled youth.

2:26.0

The coroner who examined their corpses, who regularly corresponded with the press to offer

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