Armas

Jane Smiley, hoje, no HuffPo:

"Here's what I think about guns--guns have no other purpose than killing someone or something. All the other murder weapons Americans use, from automobiles to blunt objects, exist for another purpose and sometimes are used to kill. But guns are manufactured and bought to kill. They invite their owners to think about killing, to practice killing, and, eventually, to kill, if not other people, then animals. They are objects of temptation, and every so often, someone comes along who cannot resist the temptation--someone who would not have murdered, or murdered so many, if he did not have a gun, if he were reduced to a knife or a bludgeon or his own strength. I wish that the right wing would admit that, while people kill people and even an "automatic" weapon needs a shooter, people with guns kill more people than people without guns do."

A influência dos EUA sobre a Europa é imensa: do neo-conservadorismo até ao criacionismo, as correntes de pensamento mais estúpidas, mais disparatadas e mais disfuncionais da extrema direita americana acabam sempre nos jornais europeus como ideias a ponderar, propostas por um Dr. Arroja qualquer.

E eu estou sempre a ver quando é que os ingleses começam a reclamar o direito de ter armas, e depois os polacos, e depois os búlgaros, etc.