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We went two weeks with a shooting every single day. The (not-funny) joke was we’d know the world was coming back into normalcy when we started hearing about shootings again.

One thing that felt odd during our year of isolation was mass shootings suddenly stopped. Add this with America’s penchant for violence and you get an explosive outcome. Having Donald Trump as president, espousing some pretty vile worldviews, emboldened a lot of people in their own beliefs that were previous kept hidden. The last year especially, but even before COVID came rolling onto the scene, it was weird. Joseph Edwin Haeger interviews Jeff Chon, the author of Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun, published by and available now through Sagging Meniscus Press.