Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic …
The twenty-first century witnessed a perfect storm of racialized gun capitalism: perpetual fear of terrorists and foreign others; endless overseas wars; the end of the ban on assault rifles and companion legislation to protect companies that marketed them as instruments of militarized personal violence; a stream of entertainment that fetishized weapons of war; and, in the 2010s, the popular resurgence of the Black freedom movement in the form of Black Lives Matter.