i'm oftentimes drawn like the thinking of william james wright, that qonncentral american philosopher and psychologist. And for a lot of people, turning to a gun to end their own life, kill their family, kill themselves, is a live option. It's socially imaginable, right? It's it's psychically available. It's at hand. There are other countries which ou no te grant American rates of gun ownership per capita but don't have same problems with suicide or mass shooting. So i think that the task is if gun control talk is a trap and produces, in its own perverse way, more types of gun violence. Is gun violence is certainly
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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