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>Americans
>love guns because they are suffused with a feeling of humiliation and
>powerlessness in their daily lives, and blasting away with guns at targets,
>of any shape, allows them to engage in fantasies of revenge and omnipotence.
>In short, I see fondness for guns as synonymous with having a frail ego.
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>Carl
And this is based on what? I got no problem with this kind of explanation, even Tony Soprano knows about the power of the subconscious, but it has to be based on some research doesn't it? And I never thought of William S. Burroughs as having a frail ego.
Dr. Melfi: "Without invalidating your feelings, is it possible that on some level you're reading into all this?"
Tony: "I've been coming here for years. I know too much about the subconscious now."