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IT consultant for a Cincinnati telecom firm, is big and beefy, but he is also quite soul-searching as he describes his recent decision to spend $500 on a pis- tol, a .40-caliber Glock. “I’m not a gun person,” he says. “I mean, I went out and shot in the woods in Cub Scouts or whatever, but I’d never taken that deep of an interest in owning a gun until I got involved last year in this whole thing about people being upset with the country. Then, I began thinking, ‘Hey, we need be able to exercise our rights.’
I just felt that, as a citizen, I needed to honor the vision of the founders and, you know, buy a gun. So I purchased the Glock, and I’ve used it once, at a fir- ing range.” “So, how’s your shot?” I ask. Unroe laughs. “You know, that’ll take
time.” Years, perhaps. Unroe doesn’t like firing ranges. “They’re kind of a little scary,” he says. “Sometimes peo- ple misfire. Where we went, they’ve got all these holes in the ceiling, and that’s because people just fired, accidentally, when they were getting their weapon ready.” Unroe casts me an ominous, wigged-out look. “So what are you going to do with
this gun?” I ask. “Right now,” Unroe says, “I’m still
trying to figure out how I’m going to make it an effective tool in my life.” Soon we come to a rest area and pile
out into the cool Ohio night. Nearby, there’s another silver bus, thrumming and idling, and beside it, a young man who hails us: “Where ya guys from?” “Dayton.” “Awesome! See ya on the Mall!”
T
he writer Greil Marcus an- ticipated the Tea Party in 2006, arguably, when he said, “America is a place and a story, made up of exuber-
ance and suspicion. …” In his book “The Shape of Things to Come,” Marcus, a culture critic and rock music histori- an, goes on to explain that unlike most
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