The Gun on the Mantelpiece

There's a reason that they say the gun on the mantelpiece as the primary example of foreshadowing in a play. Yes, it's a check on the gun principle, right? But i think there is some point at which like, and this is worth talking about it. A lot of those movements fall apart, because of femicide or suicide or fitration. You have to have a community to defend, in addition to just organizing around an purely reactive notion of defence.