- I like guns.
- I enjoy learning about them.
- I grew up pretending to have them.
- I need to protect my family because no one else will, even though "I am aware that, statistically speaking, a gun in the home represents a far greater danger to its inhabitants than to an intruder."
- This one time, I was in a hurricane and wished I had had a gun. (To shoot the storm with?)
- Everybody else in Texas (where Cronin lives) has one.
- It's okay because I don't like the NRA either.
- It's okay because I'm not a Republican.
- It's okay because I am in favor of some regulations.
- My daughter and I bonded over them this one time.
- It's unrealistic to hope or express the desire for a world with no guns in it.
- People on Facebook who want to get rid of guns are meanie name-callers.
- My wife says it's OK.
4 days ago
2 comments:
I Googled "Justin Cronin NYTimes" in hopes of someone explaining his Op-Ed, because 'Maybe I missed something, ANYthing,' I thought.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who found his piece ridiculous and pointless. Thanks!
Thanks for this summary. I wanted to appreciate Justin's piece. But Nancy Lanza had many of the same fears as he has. And then when you have an unbalanced child--? Who up to now has not shown violent tendencies, but who--like Justin's daughter--likes to prove his competence at the shooting range--? Remember how everyone blamed her?
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