guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime)

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Oct 17 14:00:05 PDT 2000


At 04:26 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Charles B. wrote:


>CB: Reagan claimed Americans espouse the sacredness of THE individual. But
in reality individualists hold one individual in particular to be sacred , and say fuck all the rest of y'all individuals.
>

following that line, gun ownership in this country is a typical response of alienated paranoid individualism to a real or perceived threat - healthy human beings respond collectively to a threat (e.g. collective gun ownership aka armory).

wojtek



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