“But I think this film is not anti-gun, it’s anti-gun violence.”
—Katie Couric, a few months ago, talking about her documentary
I pretty much have no opinion on gun control, okay.
I’ve never had a gun, I don’t want a gun, I don’t even take self-defense classes or carry mace or any of those things a ciswoman is “supposed” to do for her safety. Obviously, America is WAY too lax on their gun policies, but that is as deep as I get.
But let’s not pretend a gun has any purpose other than violence.
Whether you use your gun to shoot a teacher that flunked you, shoot someone trying to rape you, or shoot an animal, it’s violence. We just have cultural rules around who can be a victim of violence, and in those rules, animals and criminals (especially those coming for you) cannot.
Basically it was just the dumbest clarification I ever heard in my life. That’s all.
—melony ppenosyne
Flommist Melony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s traveled to Virginia as a competing poet, co-written a play on mental illness that is presently being produced, and crafted a published essay checking the privilege and scope of art galleries. Copyright © 2016 Melony Ppenosyne. Pictured: Old woman shoots MP40 machine gun.
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