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- Sean O'Connor
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- Location: Seattle, Washington
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- "Owning Guns"
- Summary: Writer Jay Allison talks about the events in his life that cause him to rethink his relationship with guns.
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Review of Owning Guns
Sean O'Connor
Posted on August 04, 2004 at 02:31 PM
Old blue eyes (with his taint of Mob fraternization) provides an especially evocative counterpoint to the ruminations over the power - symbolic and actual - of personal gun ownership. From Europe, against a backdrop of war-laden headlines, Jay thinks outloud about his relationship with firearms, the real and imagined security they provide, their testament to his manliness and what it says about him - and his country - that he and so many others own them. It's a time-worn calculus, but because of his personal experience with both the postive and negative sides of guns in America, Jay has produced a piece that is extremely engaging and entertaining on a topic that is so often at the center of heated debate.