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In my country we remain amazed how, despite yet another school massacre in the United States, the general opinion and the people do not put any serious and concrete pressure on the policy to change the gun law. It seems unbelievable to us. Is it possible that selfishness, fear of the other, and of losing one's possessions is more important than public safety and the protection of the weak and minorities? Is it possible that they still do not understand the danger of giving easy access to weapons to the first frustrated, deranged, paranoid, insane person who, having already decided to throw away his own life, does so by dragging as many innocents as possible into the abyss with him? Is this the celebrated American freedom of which they are so proud?
I would like to point out to them that in addition to the freedom "to" (to accumulate possessions, to be ambitious, to impose oneself, to have prestige, to enjoy...) there is also a more delicate, more inner and far more important freedom "from" (from the past, from prejudices, from selfishness and closure, from greed and anger, etc. ) and the latter can be maintained only by not spreading fear of the neighbor, the different, the foreigner and the exaltation of self-defense, but by developing the system of social protection, inclusion and welcome, and by avoiding ghettoizing, excluding, mocking, and thus bringing to exasperation and despair the different, the strange, the fragile, the mentally ill, etc.
Paradoxically, what is a widespread "fear of crime" (to be exorcised with easy access to weapons) has produced yet another "crime of fear"; because enacted by a person conditioned and driven by fear, of mockery, of others, of the past that haunts him, of the future that paralyzes him...
Have I made myself clear?
What do you guys think about this matter?
And forgive my bad english.
I would like to point out to them that in addition to the freedom "to" (to accumulate possessions, to be ambitious, to impose oneself, to have prestige, to enjoy...) there is also a more delicate, more inner and far more important freedom "from" (from the past, from prejudices, from selfishness and closure, from greed and anger, etc. ) and the latter can be maintained only by not spreading fear of the neighbor, the different, the foreigner and the exaltation of self-defense, but by developing the system of social protection, inclusion and welcome, and by avoiding ghettoizing, excluding, mocking, and thus bringing to exasperation and despair the different, the strange, the fragile, the mentally ill, etc.
Paradoxically, what is a widespread "fear of crime" (to be exorcised with easy access to weapons) has produced yet another "crime of fear"; because enacted by a person conditioned and driven by fear, of mockery, of others, of the past that haunts him, of the future that paralyzes him...
Have I made myself clear?
What do you guys think about this matter?
And forgive my bad english.