Men and Guns and the method behind my madness

I've never understood this love affair. I was going to describe it as bitter-sweet love but where is the sweetness? I can't see any sweetness in the dying of so many people - among them innocent children- made easy by fire arms. I mean even the US president who is in my opinion capable of making anything look ultra cool cannot really pull it off.  I mean look at this pic. It still looks wrong. It feels like a contradiction. A decade ago, an old friend of mine, a painter, said something along the lines of " If everyone on Earth took...