Bruce in West Oz
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NewsWeek has released a "special" edition on America's gun "problem".
While it appears they have made an attempt to listen evenly to both sides of the coin, their ultimate response is "more control", including national registration/licensing.
The attitude is probably best summed up in this quote from an article:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Besides fanatics and mentally disturbed people (Furrow appears to be both), many ordinary Americans have also become caught up in the cult of the gun. For them, it is not a jarring source of violence but as much an accepted part of the landscape as forests and rivers. Such people often resist controls over the objects they revere. But human beings are capable of modifying their own mythologies. After the tragedies in Littleton, Colo.; Atlanta, and now Los Angeles, Americans have shown signs of a change in their feelings about guns, seeing them increasingly as more dangerous than sacred. That kind of collective psychological shift is necessary if we are ever to transcend the crippling fraternity of the gun.
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College of the City University of New York. His new book, "Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism," will be published by Metropolitan Books in October.
Newsweek, August 23, 1999[/quote]
Emphasis is mine; I did it to draw attention to the very careful vocabulary choice and emotive phraseology. I'm sure I don't need to draw pictures for you.
The editorial/special, titled "Guns in America: What Must Be Done" (I like that "Must" imperative!), can be read online at:
http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/na0108_1.htm
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While it appears they have made an attempt to listen evenly to both sides of the coin, their ultimate response is "more control", including national registration/licensing.
The attitude is probably best summed up in this quote from an article:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Besides fanatics and mentally disturbed people (Furrow appears to be both), many ordinary Americans have also become caught up in the cult of the gun. For them, it is not a jarring source of violence but as much an accepted part of the landscape as forests and rivers. Such people often resist controls over the objects they revere. But human beings are capable of modifying their own mythologies. After the tragedies in Littleton, Colo.; Atlanta, and now Los Angeles, Americans have shown signs of a change in their feelings about guns, seeing them increasingly as more dangerous than sacred. That kind of collective psychological shift is necessary if we are ever to transcend the crippling fraternity of the gun.
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College of the City University of New York. His new book, "Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism," will be published by Metropolitan Books in October.
Newsweek, August 23, 1999[/quote]
Emphasis is mine; I did it to draw attention to the very careful vocabulary choice and emotive phraseology. I'm sure I don't need to draw pictures for you.
The editorial/special, titled "Guns in America: What Must Be Done" (I like that "Must" imperative!), can be read online at:
http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/na0108_1.htm
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