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James Fallows ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor und Journalist.

Fallows war Redenschreiber für US-Präsident Jimmy Carter. Seit den späten 1970er Jahren arbeitet er für das US-Magazin The Atlantic.

✵ 2. August 1949
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“Americans who know nothing else about firearms are all too familiar with the name AR-15. It’s the semi-automatic weapon that murderers have used in many of the most notorious and highest-casualty gun killings of recent years: Aurora, Colorado. Newtown, Connecticut. Orlando, Florida. San Bernardino, California. Now, with modified versions, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Sutherland Springs, Texas.”

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"Why the AR-15 Is So Lethal", The Atlantic (7 November 2017) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/why-the-ar-15-is-so-lethal/545162/

“The farsighted Willard G. Wyman, the commanding general of the Continental Army Command, had asked Stoner to design a rifle precisely to take advantage of the “payoff” of smaller bullets. The AR-15, the precursor of the M-16, used.22-caliber bullets instead of the.30-caliber that had long been standard for the Army. As early as 1928, an Army “Caliber Board” had conducted firing experiments in Aberdeen, Maryland, and had then recommended a move toward smaller ammunition…”

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"M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story" The Atlantic (June 1981) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/

“Japan gets the most of ordinary people by organizing them to adapt and succeed. America, by getting out of their way so that they can adjust individually, allows them to succeed. It is not that Japan has no individualists and America no organizations, but the thrusts of the societies are different. Japan has distorted its economy and depressed its living standard in order to keep its job structure and social values as steady as possible. At the government's direction, the entire economy has tried to flex almost as one, in response to the ever-changing world. The country often seems like a family that becomes more tightly bound together when it must withstand war, emigration, or some other upheaval. America's strength is the opposite: it opens its doors and brings the world's disorder in. It tolerates social change that would tear most other countries apart. The openness encourages Americans to adapt as individuals rather than as a group.”

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More Like Us : Making America Great Again (1989), ch. 3

“A little bullet pays off so much in wound ballistics. That is what people who choose these weapons know.”

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"Why the AR-15 Is So Lethal", The Atlantic (7 November 2017)

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