Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Disarm

Channel Islands, California


My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die.

There is evil for you.

We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true.

I give you a holy word:
DISARM.


Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

8 comments:

  1. The trouble with guns, if you have one, you're more likely to use it, and the sole purpose of guns, as so eloquently stated above, is to kill.

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  2. Thank you for this. So beautifully stated, so clear, so heart-fully right on.

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  3. If a rancher needs a gun to protect their herd, okay. If a hunter needs a gun to shoot food, okay. Neither one of them needs an assault rifle. These should be banned. Period. No reason for people to have them.

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