Barack Obama, "Greatest Gun Salesman in America"

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103. Answer the question.

"Again, no one is trying to equate pens with guns, other than to point out that both can be used for serious and leisure activities." = Contradiction - the primary use of pen is to write, the primary use of a gun is to kill. The claim that both are tools is thus salacious and false in application. Moreover, the claim that guns are items of leisure is also false and a manipulation of the term leisure. Those that find leisure in guns are engaged in a level of fetishization that is quite astonishing and peculiarly different in its usage from a simple pen.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. .... There it is a definite social relation between men, that assumes ... the fantastic form of a relation between things. In [the religious] world the productions of the human brain appear as independent beings endowed with life, and entering into relation both with one another and the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men’s hands. This I call the Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour, so soon as they are produced as commodities, and which is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities. This Fetishism of commodities has its origin ... in the peculiar social character of the labour that produces them." - Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1, chapter 1 section 4