![]() ![]() A prospective purchaser, in addition to completing a course in gun safety must:ġ. ![]() Here’s my personal list-in-progress of required prerequisites for buying a gun that demonstrate understanding and minimal competence in approaches to de-escalation of conflict and recognition of the meaning and nature of beloved community. A gun is a tool of actualization of hostile relations between enemies, or those perceived to be enemies, or those we feel comfortable relating to as if they are enemies, because we are unsocialized paranoiacs and our capacity to relate to others as equal beings with so much more in common with ourselves than differences between us is pathologically disabled. This is true even if you use a gun to shoot someone who would kill you if you didn’t shoot first. If you recoil at this objective description of guns you are living in blind denial of their purpose, even if you like them. ![]() They are lethal weapons designed to make killing on impulse as easy as wiggling a finger. Guns are implements of division, of antagonism, of hate, of death. ![]() Three-quarters of Americans don’t own a gun, thank goodness. You probably already know this.īut did you know that 3% of American gun owners possess about 50% of those 300-plus million guns? Yes, the average gun owner has eight or more of them in their personal arsenal. The next highest percentage in any country, the Falkland Islands, is about half of ours. There are more guns than humans in the U.S., about 120 per 100 people. ![]()
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