How did the Kalashnikov - a disruptive technology that flooded the world almost three generations ago and still retains an outsize role in organized violence - become such a ready amplifier of evil and rage? In what ways did it drive the AR-15 and its competitors to such prominence, too? In the hands of terrorists, military-style rifles have repeatedly been used for swiftly killing on a large scale. The FBI said the man who killed 11 worshippers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh fired on them with an AR-15. The authorities said the gunman in Las Vegas used semiautomatic AR-15s, including at least one modified with a so-called “bump stock” to rapidly increase its rate of fire and kill 59 people and wound hundreds more. Semiautomatic versions of the AR-15 were used by sympathizers of the Islamic State in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2015, and by gunmen in school attacks a Mini-14 and an MCX, rifles that fire the same cartridge as the AR-15 and compete with it for market share, were used in the mass shootings in Norway in 2011 and in Orlando, Fla., in June. In recent years they have also been descendants of the AR-15, the American military’s response to the Kalashnikov’s spread. Often the rifles are variants of the AK-47, the world’s most abundant firearm, an affordable and simple-to-use assault rifle of Soviet lineage that allows a few people to kill scores and menace hundreds, and fight head-to-head against modern soldiers and police forces. The list reaches back decades: the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 the school takeover in Beslan, Russia, in 2004 the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008 the mall assault in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013 the killing of more than 100 people in Paris in 2015 the firing into a country music concert in Las Vegas in October 2017, which killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in the most lethal mass shooting in modern American history the premeditated Valentine’s Day attack by a former student on a high school in Parkland, Fla.
A lone gunman or a small group of killers with rifles commits spectacular crimes that seize the attention of the world. Retrieved September 26, 2022.Time and again it’s the same.
Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s.Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaughįriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. Colleen Hoover was also the most frequent weekly best-selling author with 19 weeks at the top of the list.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.įor the third year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 12 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 11 weeks at the top of the list. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists. The lists are split in three genres-fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States.
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