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The Only Article About Guns You Need to Read Today

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Dark_Falcon12/19/2012 8:34:35 pm PST

Charlotte Allen’s views are quite different from those expressed by Anthony Daniels (who at other times writes under the pen name of Theodore Dalrymple) on the next page of the symposium article:

The perpetrators of mass killings seem to be maladjusted people with a grievance against life, sometimes crystallized by a relatively minor incident like being fired from work or rejected by a woman in a nightclub. Quite often they have been justly accused of what they have in fact done. One killer shot people in two brokerage firms (having first killed his wife and two children) after he had lost a lot of money day-trading. Presumably he thought that the opportunity to make a lot of money was actually the right to make a lot of money, a right that had just been denied him. (The right to pursue happiness has long since been replaced by the right to be happy.) Hence he revenged himself upon those who denied him his right.

Again, this is not to say that Ms. Arnold is right, this is to say that views quite different than hers were expressed during the symposium and thus her views should not be ascribed to National Review as a whole.