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.
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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