Skip to main content
Walter Kirn

Quote of the Day

articles/2013/01/30/quote-of-the-day/quote-of-the-day-image_ucspbo
By Justin Green

"Will there be fewer murders with tighter gun laws—the modest laws that might actually materialize rather than the grand ones that probably won't but will surely rev up the rhetoric and the hoarding—or only fewer or smaller massacres? Can we expect less violence altogether or merely less outrageous acts of violence? And if the answer is fewer catastrophes, fewer Auroras and Sandy Hooks, would that be a worthwhile accomplishment in itself? I think so. Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act."

Walter Kirn, "What Gun Owners Really Want," New Republic

See more of our coverage in your search results.

ADD THE DAILY BEAST ON GOOGLE
Justin Green
Justin Green

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.

TRENDING NOW