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> .. “When #CharltonHeston (a movie actor who once played #Jesus with shaved armpits) tells me in TV commercials about all the good work the #NationalRifleAssociation (to which Father and I both belonged when I was a kid) is doing, and how glad I should be that civilians can and do keep #MilitaryWeapons in their homes or vehicles or places of work, I feel exactly as though he were praising the germs of some loathsome disease..” #FatesWorseThanDeath, pages 80-81
https://thedailyvonnegut.com/vonnegut-on-guns/
Vonnegut on Guns - The Daily Vonnegut

With another school shooting in the news last week, it’s worth revisiting some of Kurt Vonengut’s writing about guns.  In Fates Worst than Death, Vonnegut writes:   “When Charlton Heston (a movie actor who once played Jesus with shaved armpits) tells me in TV commercials about...

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> .. “My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a #firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is #evil for you. We cannot get rid of #mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the #machines that make them come true. I give you a #holy word: #DISARM.” #KurtVonnegut #DeadeyeDick, page 87
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> “I used to be very good with guns, was maybe the best shot in my company when I was a PFC. But I wouldn’t have one of the motherfuckers in my house for anything.” #KurtVonnegut in #FatesWorseThanDeath
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> “That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as #CigaretteLighters and as cheap as #toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of shit.”
#KurtVonnegut in #TimeQuake
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/101628-that-there-are-such-devices-as-firearms-as-easy-to
A quote from Timequake

That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father o...

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> .. #Vonnegut explored.. cruelty and violence.. from.. B-52s and.. bombs.. firearms that.. turned our public gathering places into massacre sites.. he also offers hope and the possibility of generational progress.. he describes his father as a sweet man, and a #GunNut, too. “He left me his guns,”.. but the tradition of gun love ends..[he] refuses to pass them to his own sons.. tells them not to work for companies that make “MassacreMachinery.
https://lithub.com/kurt-vonnegut-really-really-hated-guns/
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Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

Kurt Vonnegut, a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association? In Fates Worse than Death, his autobiographical collage of the 1980s, Vonnegut admits that he and his father, years back, we…

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