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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorford: "America is, by every metric you can name, a far worse place for all our guns."
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Unlike cars, knives, drugs, alcohol or any other freely available, potentially deadly items which can (and do) kill lots of people, guns are the only commercially available instrument in the world that we designed specifically for the purpose of the eradication of life. A guns nature is, as they say in the tech world, baked in to the hardware. It understands nothing else.
Which is to say: Guns are death made physical, palpable in the hand. They are our basest, least sacred energies hate, fear, paranoia compressed into metal and explosives. No one holds or fires a gun without some fundamental understanding of this fact that he could, if he so desired, kill anything he wanted, right now, in an instant and thats essentially all youre supposed do with it.
The fact that most gun owners do not do this, and manage to resist using their guns for what we specifically created them to do, is merely incidental, and actually a kind of failure: it denies the guns primary objective. Gun owners actually know this, as a warped point of pride. Hey, I own lots of guns and dont kill things. How nice for you. Tell it to all the dead.
If past mass shootings are any indication, gun sales in America will enjoy a nice sales surge after the Oregon massacre. Because of course the answer to all the gun deaths is always... more guns.
If past mass shootings are any indication, gun sales in America will enjoy a nice sales surge after the Oregon massacre. Because of course the answer to all the gun deaths is always more guns.
As the nature of a gun is the abject destruction of life, to use it merely for target practice or for pleasure is, essentially, to do it a disservice; you are thwarting its objective, insulting the lethal disposition we ourselves poured into the molten metal. Much like a sports car that begs to be driven fast, or an expensive designer dress that begs to be worn to an extravagant gala, a gun begs only to be fired at another living thing, to annihilate it. And eventually, it will be.
This is why we have the headlines all wrong: Guns are not being abused or wielded incorrectly in America. They are not falling into the wrong hands, ill-begotten by evil people and crazies and psychopaths. This is not true in the slightest.
Just the opposite, actually. When yet another mass killing occurs, when another woman is murdered by her ex-husband (which happens every single day in America, BTW), when another despondent teen kills herself with her dads gun (ditto), when more males and it is almost always males shoot each other in the street, when more schoolchildren die at the hands of effortlessly well-armed adults, these are not tragedies. Its exactly what we expect to happen.
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/10/02/shooting-up-america/
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Morford: "America is, by every metric you can name, a far worse place for all our guns." (Original Post)
villager
Oct 2015
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kimbutgar
(21,055 posts)1. There are times (sadly) I am horrified how America has become
And one of the political parties say aloud things that are shocking, inhumane and crazy to a sane person.
So simply and beautifully put, the sole purpose of a gun is to kill. Unless we set aside all the excuses to argue otherwise, the country will never fix the problem. Violence is at the root of it.
aikoaiko
(34,162 posts)3. It is hardly incidental that every gun is not used to kill someone or something everyday.
This is one of the strangest personifications of guns I've ever read.
hack89
(39,171 posts)4. Guns as magic talismans. Nt
ileus
(15,396 posts)5. My firearms were designed to save/protect life.
Well some of them....the Self Defense ones at least.
Others are either Range plinkers or hunting firearms.
But none were bought nor will ever be used to kill.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)6. hunting isn't killing?
ileus
(15,396 posts)7. Not at all...
Skittles
(153,113 posts)8. are you a dentist?
ileus
(15,396 posts)9. Naw man...just your run of the mill BMET
over and out of here
MisterP
(23,730 posts)11. Central America's the planet's murder capital, with an armed guy at every corner & water-heater shop
they feel sorry for US: at least they don't have the money