Guns and Fear

“Guns are hugely attractive. They are perhaps the best-made consumer products we can buy. What else that you buy today will be functioning exactly as well 100 years from now as it is today? I actually think Michael Moore had it right in Bowling for Columbine. The problem in the United States isn’t guns, it’s fear — fear that serves many, many interests and thus will be hard to squelch.”
-Dan Baum wrote a piece in the current Harper’s about concealed-and not so concealed-weapons. He talks about it here. (For more on how easy it is to get a concealed weapon permit, see our handy guide.)