Why does daddy wear a gun

View the latest or submit your own film. With the film, which he made while completing an M. On camera, little boys are seen learning a set of skills and lessons. Some of these are practical—how to load, aim, and discharge a firearm—whereas others are more nebulous, about enacting a particular brand of masculinity, in which safety and strength are connected to a capacity for violence.

Over this footage, we hear a recorded phone call between Griswold and his father, Tom, in which they talk about their early experiences with guns. Ohio Gun Laws. Oklahoma Gun Laws. Oregon Gun Laws. Pennsylvania Gun Laws. Rhode Island Gun Laws. South Carolina Gun Laws. South Dakota Gun Laws. Tennessee Gun Laws.

Texas Gun Laws. Utah Gun Laws. Vermont Gun Laws. Virginia Gun Laws. Washington Gun Laws. West Virginia Gun Laws. Wisconsin Gun Laws. Wyoming Gun Laws. State Gun Laws. Concealed Carry Laws. Open Carry Laws. Constitutional Carry Laws. Every time I boot up my computer and hunch over the keyboard for a long, bloody stretch of writing, I review what I wrote the day prior to buff away any scuff marks and plug in to the voice's current.

It's my way of getting warmed up, the equivalent of cracking my knuckles. Almost inevitably, my eyes wander to the most important line, the first line. I am obsessed with first lines. I rewrite them over and over.

I collect them and carry them around in a pocket of my mind to withdraw every now and then and look at, like precious stones, a lucky feather, a Polaroid of my ex-girlfriend naked and straddling a motorcycle. I like them epic: "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice -- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany" John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany.

I like them funny: "My mother believed that if you go out of your way to be friendly to people, they will take a liking to you, but this philosophy did not work for me, because I was a leper" Garrison Keillor, "Buddy the Leper". So do I like them mysterious and shocking and grotesque and sexy and lyrical and wise. Sometimes I'm struck most by the authors who say the least.

That one gets me every time.