came to me one day very upset about the gun violence he was seeing all around him – as a decent human being would be. He said he’d decided to start travelling around the country, photographing the sites of all thein the past 20 years. As I say in the book, mass shootings account for just a small fraction of American gun deaths, but they nevertheless occur with stunning frequency – roughly one per day over the course of any given year.
My British and European friends are completely lost when it comes to trying to understand American gun violenceI think the absence of human figures is striking and the way that there are no guns, no reference to mass shootings, just these often rather ugly buildings in the middle of rather nondescript, depressing American landscapes. There’s an emptiness to them.
That it will initiate a discussion that we really haven’t had in America about how to confront this monstrous situation we’ve built for ourselves. I see it as a national project that I’m willing to go on the stump for and to be a missionary for, and I very much want to see what kind of effect it will have.
A bit like a fourth trimester abortion.