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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
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The whole article is a nice read, and every paragraph reinforces the thesis of the piece: that family is fucked-up
That's the most horrific thing: fucked up but profoundly unremarkable as far as local standards seem to go. It's not a crime.. it's an accident..oh well. Just another standard family with a standard relationship to guns.... By local standards.
Fucked. Up.
They're experiencing a fundamental cognitive dissonance. Their life-long proximity to their weapons has inculcated them with the belief that the weapons are safe and keep them safe. The horror that a family member could be irreversibly un-alived by the weapon is anathema to that "safe" belief they have. Frankly, it's preventing them from properly grieving and living their lives.
It certainly helps to explain why there's significant push-back to common-sense gun control - some Americans experience profound reliance on the presence of a weapon to feel a "normal" sense of security and well-being. It's tragic, and there's no easy way to interrupt the establishment of that totemic objectification of weapons.
Edit to add relevant quote from the piece:
Thank you for teaching me the word inculcate!
I think you're absolutely right about how entrenched the gun=safety belief is. It's essentially a religious thought. How do you convince someone their religion is wrong?