[lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:57:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
If the same energy went into getting children fathers, real fathers, guns would become irrelevant. Fatherless (which is to say, unprotected, powerless feeling) children grow up to need surrogate protection and power, which is to say, guns. Cho's experience bears that out. I know, I know, same old same old broken record. Except that it's true. Makes we wonder that the South is so gun toting for the same reason that they were so lynch-happy, i.e., lynching gave them a way to feel powerful, gave an outlet for their hatred. Carrying hatred is very painful, gotta dump it somewhere.
It takes a man to be a dad. Instead of men, there are a lot of overgrown, terrified little boys (this is just a statement of fact, no judgment, except that it's a tragedy, at all) running around using guns to fill their manhood vacuum. It's no coincidence that guns are shaped like penises. I am NOT being facetious or ironic or doing a gotcha. Unfortunately, men who never had fathers (an awful lot of men, perhaps the vast majority, and it's NOT their fault) can't possibly know what it takes to be a dad, and the cycle continues. It's no coincidence either, that the countries with the most drug trafficking are the most macho. Macho is basically guesswork at what manhood is. It's a self-perpetuating, downhill cycle.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Geary
Sent: Apr 19, 2007 12:35 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
How many times, Lawrence, has your house been broken into and you shot the intruder? How many times have you saved your life or those of your loved ones by brandishing your guns? We can get rid of the damn things. Every single one of them. Make owning one so expensive no one can afford them. Melt then down and build enormous statures to Gandhi and Martin Luther King. We don't let people have bazookas or howitzers or rocket propelled granades -- some do, I know -- why then do we allow any weapon that's made to kill? Hunters? No one needs to hunt for their food anymore. It's insanity. It's a sickness. I'll bet you'd get rid of your guns if there was a $50,000 penalty for each weapon you're found with. 2nd offense, $50,000 plus 5 years in prison. The cost to society is too damn high to allow people this fetish.
Mike Geary
if you think you need a gun, you need a psychiatrist.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:18 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
Even if the numbers were comparable, and they don't seem to be, and you had the same chance of being injured by violent crime whether or not you owned a gun, it seems somewhat ingrained in the non-Europeanized portions of the U.S. that it would be more honorable to go down fighting than to present one's neck to the criminal like an obedient lamb.
Lawrence
ps:
I wonder about certain aspects of these statistics, e.g., if a criminal breaks into my house and I shoot him, does that count as a violent crime? If I kill him before he kills me, how does that show up in the statistics?
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