A good essay by the Baffler on the NRA, guns, etc.

[Foucaulf]

Doesn't fit your criteria perfectly, but maybe someone will enjoy reading these:

"In the wake of the Newtown massacre, I'm struck by parallels between the Slave Power and a force haunting us today: call it The Gun Power." (Atlantic)

"This is not Rambo conservatism but Rimbaud conservatism, betraying less a disregard for death than an insufficient regard for life." (Crooked Timber)

"Those of us who view the events remotely, however, unless we start to evince a newfound appetite for gun-control measures ... are doing little more than displaying and enjoying our own exalted strickenness." (Economist)