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In reply to the discussion: Patton Oswalt: What gun owners think they look like... [View all]The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Your harping on this is beginning to remind me of a favorite old comedy routine, from'Beyond the Fringe': regular meetings of an End of the World Society, ended every meeting with a shout "Cheer up, lads! We must get a winner one day!"
In regards to fire-arms possession in the United States, my object is to alter the regulations, and it is clear to me that in order to do this, some change in what people by and large see as acceptable, normal, decent behavior will need to be wrought, as it was in regards to drinking behind the wheel and smoking and making passes at your female employees and yelling insults at homosexuals, and a variety of things I can remember being considered normal and usual and more or less acceptable behavior, yet which are now pretty widely frowned on. One means to achieve this is to point out clearly the irrationality of those most dedicated to owning fire-arms, and lay bare such dedication's roots in fetishist attachment to objects of power and potency. In this endeavor, one is certainly helped by the manifest irrationality and repugnance of many who set themselves up as spokes-persons for ''Team NRA' and its ilk. These people are often obviously unbalanced, obviously operating under disturbed and disturbing compulsions and obsessions. It is, in my view, the best line to press, and the complaints it evokes from persons who express themselves as dedicated to ownership of firearms suggests to me it is indeed an effective line to press, which should be pressed on a wide scale.
Fetishists fantasies are a poor basis for law and public policy regard implements of lethal force.