GunCulture

Created: 2020-07-011
creator: Brian
modified: 20220529122938292
modifier: Brian
tags: Guns
title: Guns
type: text/x-markdown

>we have a mad gun culture that has way too many young men thinking respect can come from the barrel of a gun

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>The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of
>debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption
>with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and 
>cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It
>guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from
>it. Then how can law question it?

> Its power to do good is matched by its incapacity to do anything wrong. It
> cannot kill. Thwarting the god is what kills. If it seems to kill, that is
> only because the god’s bottomless appetite for death has not been adequately
> fed. The answer to problems caused by guns is more guns, millions of guns,
> guns everywhere, carried openly, carried secretly, in bars, in churches, in
> offices, in government buildings. Only the lack of guns can be a curse, not 
> their beneficent omnipresence.

--[Gary Willis](https://www.nybooks.com/online/2012/12/15/our-moloch/)

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