Stop the Mayhem: Guns Are Literally Killing Us
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<p>In a masterly Op-Ed that deserves to be widely read, and even more that its message needs to be acted on, Jamelle Bouie couldn’t make it any clearer why “Our Gun Fetish Is Killing Us”<a href="https://ianmitroff.medium.com/stop-the-mayhem-guns-are-literally-killing-us-ae789f9a4155#_edn1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">[i]</a>.</p>
<p>As Bouie and a host of others have pointed out, Guns have been enshrined and immortalized in American Culture, from Westerns to pulp fiction, not to mention Gun manufacturers who’ve marketed Guns by stoking fears and thereby promoting them as primary means of insuring Freedom, Liberty, and not least of all as major symbols of Masculinity. In short, a big part of why Guns are so dangerous is that they’ve become a Fetish, “an object to be worshiped for its power”.</p>
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