An excerpt from Garry Wills column in the New York Review of
Books only days after the Newtown Massacre in 2012:
The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political
issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it
precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does
what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only
of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees
law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it?
Its power to do good is matched by its incapacity to do
anything wrong. It cannot kill. Thwarting the god is what kills. If it seems to
kill, that is only because the god’s bottomless appetite for death has not been
adequately fed. The answer to problems caused by guns is more guns, millions of
guns, guns everywhere, carried openly, carried secretly, in bars, in churches,
in offices, in government buildings. Only the lack of guns can be a curse, not
their beneficent omnipresence.
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It seems as though it will be impossible for both the right and the left to ever come together on the issue.
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