Just two days later, on August 14, The Atlantic published another piece titled “How Extremist Gun Culture Co-Opted the Rosary,” which seeks to argue that a number of “armed radical traditionalists have taken up a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon in the fight against evil and turned it into something dangerously literal.”
It is also worth noting that while the current title of the piece is fairly nuanced, the article’s headline was changed on multiple occasions, previously reading, “Guns and Rosaries” and “How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol.”
Nevertheless, one cannot help but notice the stark contrast between The Atlantic’s coverage of the admittedly violent Jane’s Revenge and the coverage of mostly American traditional Catholics who view the Rosary as a weapon while also supporting their Second Amendment right.