Guns do not create the impulse to violence. They merely ensure that the consequences of just about anything can be fatal.
Most of all, guns destroy freedom. They erode the freedom of assembly. They make it scary to walk across a college campus at night. They make you wonder if saying that, say, the GOP field is a bunch of ammosexual nuts might line you up on the wrong side of a nine held by some cultist in the church of the holy firearm who takes a hard line on blasphemy.
Guns fix their owner in a state of permanent fear — how else to describe the claim of a threat so constant that going strapped is the only rational response? — and impose that fear on all the rest of us. Guns slaughter their own, as 20,000 + gun suicides attest.
An armed society is not a civil society. It is one that rewards not our aspirations, but our night terrors.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/10/09/now-is-not-the-right-time-it-is-always-the-necessary-time/
interesting take, eh?
Most of all, guns destroy freedom. They erode the freedom of assembly. They make it scary to walk across a college campus at night. They make you wonder if saying that, say, the GOP field is a bunch of ammosexual nuts might line you up on the wrong side of a nine held by some cultist in the church of the holy firearm who takes a hard line on blasphemy.
Guns fix their owner in a state of permanent fear — how else to describe the claim of a threat so constant that going strapped is the only rational response? — and impose that fear on all the rest of us. Guns slaughter their own, as 20,000 + gun suicides attest.
An armed society is not a civil society. It is one that rewards not our aspirations, but our night terrors.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/10/09/now-is-not-the-right-time-it-is-always-the-necessary-time/
interesting take, eh?