so -- it's so necessary to defend even teachers owning guns, as if a teacher having a gun would be the response to a child bringing a gun to school. how about employing education, how about decreasing violence? how about not being intently engaged with the notion of violence that says that american manhood is proved by how many guns we own. how many people we can murder. our video games testify to that and i'm not against video games. i think video games are great. i think rap music is great. i'm not attacking culture but i think our addiction to violence means we're somehow against a notion of being culpable and response at the same time. so we accept this as the price of freedom. and i tell you, that's a false sense of freedom. you know, philosophers talk about freedom from and freedom to. freedom from imprisoning conditions that would ultimately en snare us in narrow prevention views of american society, and freedom to, the positive sense