Treating all guns as though they are always loaded, even after verification that they are not, is a wise discipline that prevents negligent discharge injuries and deaths, and it is analogous to a useful heuristic of valuing all human lives equally as a bulwark against the kinds of eugenic and genocidal evils that emerged from capacity-based discrimination in Nazi Germany.
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“treat a gun as though it is always loaded...it is in fact true...it's not true that I actually believe...I'm engaged in a kind of religious ritual, right? And yet it is a truly wise one.”
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