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Friday, April 5, 2013

The Slaughter At Sandy Hook and The Madness Of Guns


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Americans passion for guns is more obscene than triple X porn.

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"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"

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Excerpt: "So let’s state the plain facts one more time, so that they can’t be mistaken: Gun massacres have happened many times in 
many countries, and in every other country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its 
citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most 
often of children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly 
available... The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. 
They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in 
the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value... At some point, this truth may become so 
bloody obvious that we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe."

December 14, 2012

NEWTOWN AND THE MADNESS OF GUNS

Posted by Adam Gopnik


After the mass gun murders at Virginia Tech, I wrote about the unfathomable image of cell phones ringing in the pockets of the dead kids, and 
of the parents trying desperately to reach them. And I said (as did many others), This will go on, if no one stops it, in this manner and to this 
degree in this country alone—alone among all the industrialized, wealthy, and so-called civilized countries in the world. There would be 
another, for certain.

Then there were—many more, in fact—and when the latest and worst one happened, in Aurora, I (and many others) said, this time in a tone of 
despair, that nothing had changed. And I (and many others) predicted that it would happen again, soon. And that once again, the same twisted 
voices would say, Oh, this had nothing to do with gun laws or the misuse of the Second Amendment or anything except some singular 
madman, of whom America for some reason seems to have a particularly dense sample.

And now it has happened again, bang, like clockwork, one might say: Twenty dead children—babies, really—in a kindergarten in a prosperous 
town in Connecticut. And a mother screaming. And twenty families told that their grade-schooler had died. After the Aurora killings, I did a 
few debates with advocates for the child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby—and, without exception and with a mad vehemence, they told 
the same old lies: it doesn’t happen here more often than elsewhere (yes, it does); more people are protected by guns than killed by them 
(no, they aren’t—that’s a flat-out fabrication); guns don’t kill people, people do; and all the other perverted lies that people who can only be 
called knowing accessories to murder continue to repeat, people who are in their own way every bit as twisted and crazy as the killers whom 
they defend. (That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single embryo only makes the craziness still crazier.)

So let’s state the plain facts one more time, so that they can’t be mistaken: Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries, and 
in every other country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other 
country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of children, happen with hideous 
regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available.

The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made 
a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the 
routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value. Whatever satisfaction gun owners take from their guns—we know for certain that 
there is no prudential value in them—is more important than children’s lives. Give them credit: life is making moral choices, and that’s a 
moral choice, clearly made.

All of that is a truth, plain and simple, and recognized throughout the world. At some point, this truth may become so bloody obvious that 
we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.


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                                       Just how obscene is America's passion for red hot hard cylinders that shoot explosively?

                          

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