William Rivers Pitt | An Open Letter to Lovers of the Gun

[IveWornAHundredPants]

150. When you end your posts with "What else do you want me to do?"

as if there's nothing you can do, as if you're not part of the problem, then you kind of invite it.

Buried within my line of insulting bullshit is a serious point. In saying "you're a part of the problem," I don't mean you're out shooting people or fantasizing about doing so. But the problem is one of attitude: the idea that guns are here and not only can nothing be done about that, nothing should be done about it, because that's just the way America is. That's the problem, and that's what you and your sneering "what do you want me to do?" are part of.

You clearly think it's normal to have a gun around you all the time. It isn't. That's neither here nor there, because "normal" isn't all it's cracked up to be, as most of us here know. But I don't think it's very healthy either, and that's why the dudes strapped to the teeth who are all "Huh? What are you looking at?" tend to get my hackles raised.