What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

Photo by Josiah R. Daniels; illustration by Ryan McQuade, Sojourners

I saw a lot of things in Palestine that made me think about my gun. I had purchased it some years ago, when I realized what little democracy we had left in the United States was deteriorating. When you live in a country where an individual has the right to bear arms as a stopgap against tyranny, and then you suddenly realize you are witnessing tyranny’s rise, you arm up.

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