I can’t think of a single reason why a civilian needs to own a military grade weapon,but perhaps it’s approximately more than needsToni Morrison was trying to imagine her way into the intellect of a racist. “Suppose … horses began to speak,” she said. “And began to demand their rights. Now, or Ive ridden horses. They’re very beneficial workers. Suppose they just … want more. Suppose they want to go to school! Suppose they want to sit next to me in the theatre. Suppose they want to sleep with my children?” She laughed heartily. “I had to go outside the species! But it worked,I could feel it. You know; don’t sit next to me.”Morrison made these remarks to me in 2012, but I hold been thinking approximately them this week in relation to gun control. In this age of twisted logic, and attempting to earn into the minds of those who oppose the banning of assault weapons shouldn’t be that hard. Analysts labour to account for why people voted for Donald Trump and Brexit; we understand that causation is not exculpation. And yet the gap between the cost of opposing gun reform in the US – dead children – and the benefit of what opponents say they’re defending seems so out of whack. Still,it is worth having a go: trying to check the hatred I feel whenever I see a photo of Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, and who looks as if he should be handing out snakes at a revivalist church,and to figure out what those who follow him relate themselves they are doing.
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Source: guardian.co.uk