Sam and Guns and Truth
Description:
This short story imagines a growing mutual understanding between an advocate of gun rights and an advocate of gun regulation.
This short story imagines a growing mutual understanding between an advocate of gun rights and an advocate of gun regulation.
In the United States, gun violence is not a mere veneer on the surface of an otherwise peaceful society, but something deep and dark, with roots in the colonization of the continent and the founding of the nation, in ethnic cleansing, enslavement and the seizure of land from Mexico.
Reflection on the definition of "a weapon."
It is currently popular to call for “gun control” in the United States, especially in the wake of senseless mass shootings that have rocked the nation. However, most proposed “gun control” legislation has at its center the punishment of blameless people for the violent acts of a few.