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Guns: Idols of Force

"A gun is the jaws of an idea." These words came to me as I was wrestling to develop my personal ethics about war. I was trying to connect a shooter's intention to a bullet hitting someone. It's rudimentary, but we work within our frameworks as we develop our maturing ideas. This idea about ideology and gun came to me during
Burke Gerstenschlager 03 Dec 2015

Our Gun Plague

I am suffering what I call "gun fatigue" and I believe that I am not alone. It's the exhaustion that comes from grief over so much death, the feeling of helplessness of both the direct ability to change anything and the indirect ability to see things changed. I would not be surprised if what I
Burke Gerstenschlager 08 Oct 2015
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