Duck and Quiver 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eric Dietrich muses on America’s love affair with guns. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
What do we fear? We fear abortion (as an essential component to women’s rights), animal rights, any religion besides conservative Christianity, bans on hunting, birth control, carbon footprints, the politics of caring, controlling energy use, controlling mining, discussions of sexism, diversity, economic crashes, education, euthanasia, evolution, flying planes into buildings, gay marriage, gender (and the word “gender”), getting mugged, gun control, home invasions, homosexuality, immigration, not logging, statistically not common sexual behavior, population control (and discussing same), protecting the environment, races other than the white one, restrictions on parenting, running out of gas and oil, science, sex, taking global warming seriously, talk of climate change, talk of social class, talk about the Second Amendment, terrorism, transgendered humans, types of governments besides ours, vaccinations . . . .In fact, we fear discussing gun control so much that Congress has prevented our Centers for Disease Control from conducting any research on gun control. Such willful blindness is not only immoral, it is illegal (trying getting away with willful blindness in a criminal case).
