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Krugman cites the conservative columnist George Will, who once railed against "liberals' love of trains" as evidence of a greater desire to "diminish Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism." How far removed is this sentiment, he wonders, than NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's repeated contention that "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?

Krugman ends his piece on a distinctly philosophical note:

"In short, you might want to think of our madness over guns as just one aspect of the drive to turn us into what Thomas Hobbes described long ago: a society 'wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them.' And Hobbes famously told us what life in such a society is like: 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.'"

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