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The Impulse To Kill

 All the denials of the gun as a danger deny that a gun in

human hands (except hunting) involves an impulse to

kill. Whether the result of mental health issues, or a list

of social causes, from media to video games, they 

converge at the use of a gun to act upon the impulse to

kill. If we can not diagnose or predict the mental

triggers, the dark voices that reel away morality, we can

agree that the trigger of a gun, esp. assault weapons, is

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 where impulse meets opportunity. The gun becomes the

instrument for many who harbor the unpredictable,

unseen urge to ignore the cost of their actions and play 

 judge and jury.

If we can not deal with what we cannot predict, we can

deal with what we can. The common factor is the gun.

Over and over, it is what we know, the one point we can

control.

Those who cite stats about car deaths, accidents, and

other deadly forms, ignore the common use of the gun.

Few die from the deliberate use of the car as an object to

kill. The same with accidents and other causes. While

not all guns are deliberately used to kill, the latent use is

implied. More than not, it is the object of choice.

 We mark dangerous curves, stop intoxicated drivers,

childproof medicines, install smoke alarms to save

lives. So should we prevent gun violence.

Lastly one of the leading proponents of gun ownership,

died Friday, murdered in his office, surrounded by his

gun collection. They didn't save him. Revolution? The

dead have no rights or freedom.

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