The Perfect Response to Conservative Advocate of More Guns in NY Times Op-Ed

Only when you have betrayed civil society and the ideals of equality before the law, neighborliness, civic tolerance and reasoned discourse, does the notion of arming everyone look like “progress.” The American Right in 2014 cannot see past its own dark fantasies of perpetual threat and dim fears of chaos and societal disintegration. Even as they hustle us into a brave new world of vast inequality and anti-democratic control by plutocrats, they stand in terror of their own creation – like Dr. Frankenstein and his unstable monster on a rampage. The thing they need to kill with their guns is the thing they have set loose on the landscape. But they are too backed into a corner of their own making to see this truth or to have any idea how to get themselves, and the rest of us, out of it.