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Electric Monk
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Electric Monk's Journal
January 4, 2015
I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU
The underlying politics of gun control has always been the same: the majority of Americans agree that there should be limits and controls on the manufacture and sale and ownership of weapons intended only to kill en masse, while a small minority feels, with a fanatic passion, that there shouldnt. In a process familiar to any student of society, the majority of people in favor of gun sanity care about a lot of other things, too, and think about them far more often; the gun crazy think about guns all the time, and vote on the issue with fanatic intensity.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/newtown-lawsuit-moral-work-gun-control
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/newtown-lawsuit-moral-work-gun-control
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