‘Bloodbath Nation’ is about the epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. It is an epidemic caused – not by Covid – but by guns. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America’s love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers – guns in hand – who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day.