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Guns, our Moloch [1]

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Date: 2023-03-28  

Arms for the Poor, Ron Hagell

I've had it. I grew up with guns, I've owned guns and I've been a member of the NRA in the past, but we've gone way too far. The love of guns has become a religion and we are sacrificing our children just as they did to Moloch in days gone by.

I can not put it more clearly than Garry Wills, writing for The New York Review some years ago, after the Sandy Hook grade school massacre:

The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it?

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