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The New Yorker: The Cultural Fight for Guns.

“Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation. …I am not saying that people who love guns inordinately are unstable; I am saying that a gun is the most powerful device there is to accessorize the ego.” Unless it’s a tool, and treated as one. What America has a problem with, IMHO, is the fetishization of guns. We have kitchens full of knives, and the knife murder rate is 1/5 of the gun murder rate. Surely that helps point up the problem … ? We think of knives differently.

04/09/13 • 02:15 PM • General • Law • Psychology • No Comments

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