The gun is, like, it's paradoxical, in a way that the blue line is also a kind of paradoxical thing, where it's both the limit case, but also the thing that makes possible the whole system. As a way, when people self identify as gun owners, gun owners as a primary means of identifying themselves as part of right wing social and political america,. That is placing them adjacent to and in alliance with, sort of the armed forces of the state. I think that's probably the way to understand it. Probably, even of you probably make some, i mean, if like a discussion that we're having within, within, like, the ambit of
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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