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“Whenever my parents fight, my dad threatens my mom with his gun,” a viewer told [Televangelist Pat Robertson] in an email. “Fortunately, this now means nothing to my mom, and she never goes nuts about it; she is very calm.”

“But as a child, I get nervous and worried when this happens,” the viewer’s note continued. “Even my younger brother saw this incident. What should we do about it and him?”

Televangelist’s response? “[Y]ou don’t want to get your father busted..”

As you can see, America has really entered the twilight world of gun madness. And the further it is from the one and only rational course of action (enforcing a ban on these dangerous weapons), the weirder become its efforts to make sense of this terribly irrational situation.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...