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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: WLJ on April 23, 2019, 04:54:08 PM

Title: The secret is out
Post by: WLJ on April 23, 2019, 04:54:08 PM

Apparently guns have supernatural powers, or something :facepalm:

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Yet when neighbors relayed how the deaths happened, they offered explanations involving a different kind of occult transformation: the supernatural potency of the .38 to change people into unethical agents. With each subsequent death, lore intensified around the gun, with people surmising that "touching" this gun could portend death. "Ever since they touched the gun, those poor young boys were not the same," said one community member. Residents spoke about the gun as if it were an amulet that could change otherwise good people and what they did in the world.

What Guns Do to Our State of Mind
https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-guns-change-us

Title: Re: The secret is out
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 23, 2019, 07:14:16 PM

They put this article under the heading of "Social Justice." Satire, in other words.

Title: Re: The secret is out
Post by: griz on April 24, 2019, 07:33:10 AM

From the article:

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Henri was acting as anyone with a gun like that would. "You become a hothead. You feel force inside the body, and you think you can do anything. ... He'll go hustle. Rob people.

All my guns are defective.  None of them has made me want to shoot people or anything bad at all.

Title: Re: The secret is out
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 24, 2019, 07:20:57 PM

"A gun like that"? A .38 revolver?

 :facepalm:

Just...:facepalm: