Guns: an American religion

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Dominic Preziosi April 28, 2014 - 3:54pm
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On our website now, E. J. Dionne Jr. on Georgia's new "guns everywhere" legislation that expressly allows people to bring their weapons to church, among other places:
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    Nothing better reveals the utter irrationality of our politics for the whole world to see than this madness about guns -- and no issue better demonstrates how deeply divided our nation is by region, ideology, and party…. Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.

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Dionne's latest comes on the heels of the National Rifle Association's "Stand and Fight" rally, held in Indianapolis over the weekend, where Sarah Palin with Christian motherly charm declared that "waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists." And she demonstrated glancing acquaintance with transitive logic in getting to the red-meat portion of her remarks: "If you control oil, you control an economy. If you control money, you control commerce. But if you control arms, you control the people, and that is what they're trying to do." [Applause]
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They, being the Obama administration, which at last check had taken action on gun reform off the legislative docket. But faith of course is famously resistant to fact and reason.