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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
-Ernest Gaines
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Why Is It That, As A Culture,

Ernest Gaines
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
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I hold my face in my two hands. no, i am not crying. i hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.
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I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. they held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. when steve and i held hands, i had to keep looking down to marvel at it. there was my hand, the same hand i've always had - oh, but look! what is it holding? it's holding steve's hand! who is steve? my three-dimensional boyfriend. each day i wondered what would happen next. what happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. i supposed i would go on being happy forever. i knew i would not mess things up by growing bored. i had done that once before.
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Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at columbine high didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. i'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. they should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.
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I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. we can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. we can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. we can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.
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A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. it does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. but it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. a free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. the opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.
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