Gun violence and the death of joy: We’re losing the places where we once felt safe
“That’s the notion people who feel a need to keep their guns so they can one day fight the government cling to, albeit a notion they express rather less eloquently.
“Here’s the bad news for those people: You have already been effectively disarmed. Mason is presupposing a world where the government has arms that are comparable to the citizenry. That is not the world we live in. A man with a house full of AK-47s will not be able to stand up against the 101st Airborne. […]
“Those weapons that people cherish the right to are not very good when it comes to standing up against the government. They are, however, excellent at killing people sitting in movie theaters or dancing at nightclubs.”
The more we allow gun violence to go unchecked in America, the more we all lose — including lives and happiness
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