I once wrote a blog post comparing gun-fetishism to a kind of identity politics. For the gun-fetishists, a firearm is no more of a tool than is their digestive system, or their consciousness itself. Rather, it *IS* their "self." To take it away would amount to existential annihilation.
I once wrote a blog post comparing gun-fetishism to a kind of identity politics. For the gun-fetishists, a firearm is no more of a tool than is their digestive system, or their consciousness itself. Rather, it *IS* their "self." To take it away would amount to existential annihilation.
Sad, but too true.