[Magdalen] Highlander Centerre Fire

[ME Michaud]

A friend sent a link this morning to an article that posited the idea that
people (men, actually) buy firearms because they believe they and their
families will be attacked in their homes by some sort of bogeyman (zombie
undead, Muslim, African-American, whatever). The author was acting like
this was a revelation, but it's is such an American fear.

I am remembering that when my mother went to college in Boston (in 1940)
her father thought it prudent to give her a cute little pistol.

I am remembering that my grandmother, whose father was born in 1842, had no
shame in claiming she was deathly afraid of "wild Indians."

The current administration alternately pricks and massages these fears.
And I think the NRA has exploited them for decades.
I pray it will end with the next generation.
-M


On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say racism and Islamophobia.
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