OPINION: 'If we want to project national toughness, why not select the nail as our object of worship? No one ever says this or that guy is “tough as guns.” Sure, it’s crazy to honor the nail this way but…
A gun is a tool. It is a manufactured implement with an intended use. Tools are useless until someone employs them. Guns do not, in fact, kill people. People kill people. People kill innocents and they kill themselves — with guns — every single day in this country. It’s the American tool of choice.
If we want to project national toughness, why not select the nail as our object of worship? No one ever says this or that guy is “tough as guns.” Sure, it’s crazy to honor the nail this way but if we’re in the market for a tough-as-nails national symbol, there it is! “You can have my nails when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.”
Assault rifles and handguns are tools designed to wound and kill people. They may do so in the hands of trained soldiers defending our country and allies. They may do so in the hands of trained law enforcement trying to protect us. And they may do so in the hands of ordinary citizens in instances of self-protection, though that is exceptionally rare.
These lethal tools are granted special status by politicians up to their necks in greed and cowardice. Until we outvote the extremists who support them, the gun will have rights and reverence afforded to no other tool, the daily carnage of gun homicides and gun suicides will continue, and we’ll continue to be left with only thoughts and prayers.
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