11-21-2016, 11:57 AM
Republican pols have pushed a culture rich in firearms, and now Donald Trump throws ethnic and religious bigotry onto a country awash in privately-owned, unregistered and unregulated firearms. Why does that sound dangerous?
A hint: for all its repression, the Soviet Union was fairly permissive about firearms. When it broke apart such places as Chechnya, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabach became rife with gun violence.
A hint: for all its repression, the Soviet Union was fairly permissive about firearms. When it broke apart such places as Chechnya, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabach became rife with gun violence.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.