#LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms
#ReasoningFallacyFalseDilemmaDichotomy i.e. both are weapons
#TheoryOfAffordances.fford and are intended for killing.
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#IRLAnthropologistBrunoLatour "Each artifact has its script, its 'affordance,' its potential to take hold of passersby and force them to play roles in its story. By contrast, the sociological version of the NRA renders the gun a neutral carrier of will that adds nothing the action, playing the role of an electrical conductor, good and evil flowing through it effortlessly. ...
Reversing the dogma of moralism, the materialists insist that we are what we have - what we have in our hands, at least. ...
For the NRA, one's moral state is a Platonic essence: One is born a good citizen or a criminal. Period. As such, the NRA account is moralist-what matters is what you are, not what you have" (Bruno Latour, 1994, p.31). Latour, B. (1994). 'On Technical Mediation Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.' Common Knowledge 3(2).
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#MagazineForbesTheodoreMcDarrah "You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it. You are another subject because you hold the gun; the gun is another object because it has entered into a relationship with you."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teddymcdarrah/2021/03/29/how-a-gun-changes-you-a-philosophical-look-at-gun-control/