[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 (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 pistol.

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

The current administration alternately pricks and massages

I think the NRA has exploited this very American foible.
I pray it will end with the next generation.


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

> I would say racism and Islamophobia.
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:37 PM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > On 03/04/2019 18:05, Jay Weigel wrote:
> > > And of course our "wonderful" president has disbanded the domestic
> > > terrorism task force. *eyeroll*
> >
> > In view of the fact that its Lent and the Baptismal Covenant i will
> > merely ask what unites the perpetrators of most acts of recent terrorism
> > in the USA.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
>