"But a disturbing element keeps popping up in the coverage: the feeling of power people derive from being armed." "Dorene Macias, a former gang member who was shot four times and still has a bullet lodged in her head, nevertheless admitted the rush she felt upon owning her first gun, a .22. “I can remember the thrill, the adrenaline of it – knowing that I had a gun, that I was going to shoot somebody,” she said. “My gun made me feel bigger than God. It made me feel invincible, like nothing could get through me.” One perpetrator of gun violence, who accidentally shot his girlfriend and served 10 years in prison, describes the same feeling of omnipotence that carrying a gun gave him. “It felt like, you know, I don’t know how to describe it,” he said. “You walk around the street and you have this sense that you are stronger than you actually are, tougher than you actually are.” As long as guns are so readily available, that lure may be hard to diminish. Here is today’s report." nocera.blogs.nytimes/2013/06/14/the-gun-report-june-14-2013/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:14:29 +0000