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METZL: “These are the stories we don’t hear about, but I would say that the bigger context here, about the way in which guns have been constructed as symbols of the white privilege in a way, the ways in which guns, particularly carrying guns in public like this, has been constructed as a way of kind of showing a particular form of white authority, I think provides a lot of the context for a lot of these shootings that we are seeing, particularly the arbury shooting. I think that you’re exactly right, there’s all these histories that play out that we need to think about, but also, this is a moment where there are a lot of guns in society, and President Trump on down is given message that the regular rules don’t apply. I fear this is the one shooting caught on tape, but I think there’s other things happening in the country right now.”