{"id":109811,"date":"2025-05-05T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109811"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:43:50","slug":"109811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109811","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t take advice on guns from the\u00a0New York Times\u2019<\/i>\u00a0\u201cEthicist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In a country with more guns than people (there were some 393 million firearms in civilian hands alone in 2017, according to the Small Arms Survey), it\u2019s easy to see why your husband might feel that owning one himself could give him some control, some shield against chaos. But your instincts are sound. As you\u2019re aware, bringing a gun into our homes doesn\u2019t seem to tip the odds in our favor. Studies show little evidence that guns protect against injury or loss during a crime. Instead, they raise the risk of harm within the household, through accidents, impulsive actions or suicide.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re imagining your regret were civic life to unravel, and you had failed to prepare. Maybe there\u2019s a \u201cLast of Us\u201d scenario flickering in your heads, where bandoliered bad guys roam a collapsed society, but even then, I doubt that whatever firearm your husband is contemplating would help. In a world where some are armed to the teeth, being armed to your toes seems unlikely to do anything but escalate the dangers for you. What\u2019s more to the point is that you feel safe in your city. Your recognition that guns bring more harm than good isn\u2019t na\u00efve. Real control lies in holding fast to your reasoned beliefs, not in giving way to fear.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah in\u00a0My Husband Fears Political Violence. Should We Buy a Gun?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t take advice on guns from the\u00a0New York Times\u2019\u00a0\u201cEthicist.\u201d In a country with more guns than people (there were some 393 million firearms in civilian hands alone in 2017, according to the Small Arms Survey), it\u2019s easy to see why your husband might feel that owning one himself could give him some control, some shield … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109812,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109811\/revisions\/109812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}