gracheeha

"The world is full of societies where individuals arm themselves for safety, and the instability of such countries should serve as an object lesson of what happens when our mutual trust and our willingness to engage in conversation, unarmed, is driven away by fear of both our government and our fellow citizens.
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America armed would not be a place of genteel men in cowboy hats keeping everyone calm, but a nation even more on edge.
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I don't agree with banning guns, but I categorically reject calls to embrace them more openly as a way to avoid violence. The young Taliban in the news may appear tough but are in fact men in perpetual insecurity... There is a reason we left that model behind, and I am looking forward to leaving it behind myself."

Does the NRA Want to Turn America Into Afghanistan?