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Reply to "America is far from free. Why do we accept living under perpetual fear of endless gun violence?"
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[quote=Anonymous]There are a tangle of reasons, but I read something interesting today in another context about the need, in big industrial societies, to sublimate disagreement and conflict to institutional forms. Government needs to maintain a monopoly on violence, and this means police, courts, due process and all of that. In the Catcher in the Rye, there is a line about how the mark of the immature man is a willingness to die nobly for a cause and the mark of the mature man is a willingness to live humbly for one. I think the gun culture exploits an immature dissatisfaction with the institutional forms of conflict resolution. Guns create the illusion of agency, an immediacy of conflict resolution, a decisiveness of action that aren't available through other means. Living humbly is simply not something we teach people, particularly our young men, to value. [/quote]
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