UD‘s beloved DeLillo stars in the New Yorker’s account of the YouTube killings.
There will be a temptation to read the attack as a dark parable of the attention economy — the story of someone so hungry for views that she took a handgun to those who, in her belief, had limited them. But the truer story is that going berserk with guns has become a way of American life.
Correct. Guns are now the way America’s berserk turn down the bed and turn out the lights.
[E]very country contains mentally ill and potentially violent people. Only America arms them.
April 5th, 2018 at 8:43AM
don’t think it’s measurable case to case but I would say that having arms on hand may well edge people closer to violence.
April 5th, 2018 at 8:58AM
dmf: Certainly arms on hand seem to edge significant numbers of people closer to suicide. Impulsivity plus handy guns probably means a greater inclination toward violence against others as well.