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David Levine's avatar

I have never discharged a firearm. I don't WANT to discharge a firearm. I figure if you've managed to avoid something of which you fundamentally disapprove for 73 years, it's probably a terrible time to start. yet I have an old friend (from graduate school in English Literature) who's become an avid gun collector, who especially loves his automatic weapons. "For all your talk," he told me once, "I guarantee that the first time you fire an AR-15, you'll immediately become addicted to the incredible power it gives you." he's trying to overcome his nice Jewish boy background, but I consider that if you have to that far, your fundamental assumptions (and the emotions that motivate them) are, shall we say out of politeness, fundamentally flawed. if I'm buffering this post with a little wit, it's because I'm in despair over this issue, especially today) the insane conspiracy nuts who maintain--beyond obscenity--that Sandy Hook was a hoax maintain that it was a plot to get gun control legislation passed. "if so, it were a grievous fault, and grievously hath...[those scumbags]...answered it." in other words, when the fuck has a school shooting ever accomplished getting ANYTHING passed?

I think that for both of us (and a bunch of other people reading this) RAGE seems to be an excellent motivator for us to sharpen up our prose.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you TC for telling it like it is. I am so disgusted with our government and everyone that is complicit in these massacres. I am ashamed to be an American right now if we can continue living in a society that lets these massacres happen, and so someone says a stupid prayer like it will make any difference, and then go on to the next massacre.

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