The hidden meaning of gun ownership.

Jonathan Zimmerman, LA Times writer of Like Prohibition, the fight over guns is about something else, writes an interesting article of symbolic meaning to bare arms. Please a read into it, if this topic interests you.

He first introduces the reader about how Prohibition isn’t just about alcohol by using Joseph Gusfield’s book, Symbolic Crusade, as helpful reference. This supported his main statement to inform us Just to inform us what direction he is going. The reason I thought it was helpful to add was because like Prohibition, there is also an amendment about guns.

When Zimmerman talks about gun controversy he uses evidence multiply of examples about guns on campus, “Oct. 1 shooting at Umpqua Community College….” But the evidence that stood out for me was about Texas, who has passed a law in June 2015 that all licenses gun owners can bring guns in and on campus grounds for the future of August 2016.

“So whatever the June law is about, it surely isn't about keeping Texas' students, faculty and staff "safe" from gun attacks”- Zimmerman

I agree when Zimmerman’s tone is giving a vibe of the reasoning of guns is not for safety reasons. Its true Texas campuses haven’t had a gun problem in their campuses in a huge expand of time, why should they allow guns to be available on campus grounds? Why bring the problem to the campus?

“[T]he concealed-weapons law allows its advocates to reclaim a kind of rough-hewn individualism that they think America has lost.” - Zimmerman

I think it’s harder to tell a gun owner that they can’t have a gun on hand because this law isn’t unconstitutional. The second Amendment states that we have the right to bare arms. So what Zimmerman is getting at is that Americans want to have a gun because it makes them feel more in power, more in control on their environment. But this causes issues and makes people feel discomfort. Not surprise that those that are concern about are people who don’t own guns, i.e.: Daniel S. Hamermesh, a resigned professor who left “out of self-protection.”

I wish for the best turn out for the future students in Texas Campuses, I hope that they don’t need to a reason to buy a gun is because the next guy has one.