Currently, the gun control debate is actually surviving the short attention span of the mainstream media and forcing both individuals and elected officials to decide what they think and then defend it. At one of the marches that recently took place, one youthful protestor was photographed carrying a sign that read, “Guns DO kill people” which is an obvious, yet artful play on the famous line of rhetoric, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” It’s an interesting statement that can create a wide array of knee-jerk reactions from, “don’t take my guns” to, “yeah, well fucking obviously.” It is worth noting though, how normal, or familiar that phrase, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people,” IS and how effectively it MUST have been marketed to make it so ubiquitous.
So do guns kill people? Or do people? And why do I remember that phrase so clearly from a time when my main media consumption was cartoons, TRL, and cereal box artwork?
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