"This Is What a Gun Control March on Washington Looks Like"

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130. You'll see me write about it.

I think we have a problem in the US not with the bill of rights, and not with gun control, or lack thereof, but of a culture where people feel a need to possess personal killing devices. People make very many false justifications for the possession of personal killing devices, but I have never seen one of them provide an actual analysis of their desire to satisfy such a dangerous, macabre fetish.

Much as I think the right of free speech must include the right for people to engage in speech and written works as vile as racist screeds and fictionalized child pornography, I think that if we really do have a right to bear arms, it must include all possible armaments. However, much as we condemn and ostracize certain types of legal speech, we should condemn and ostracize the possession of certain killing devices.

Someone should be made to feel no more comfortable for owning a bomb, grenade, gun, etc. than they would be for going to KKK rallies and publishing their desire to rape children. We must stop the perception that something is not harmful to ourselves, our families, our communities, and our government simply because we possess a legal right to cause such harm.