[No Rest For the Ticket] on Stanley Kubrick's [Man With a Gun]

"An old man and I fell out,
i'll tell you what it was all about;
he had money and I had none,
& that's the way the noise begun."

It is timeless, since the gun has become an innovation, it has become the leading weapon of criminals in societies the world over, weapons for nations to conquer the next, a source of fear amongst those unarmed. There is predator and there is prey, there too, is the circumstantial predator and the incidental prey; so where then is this line drawn, at which point would we decide to disarm the fearful protecting themselves, which would surely lead to a one-sided slaughter at the hands of criminals who'll surely refuse to be unarmed and or unarmed for long.

Auden, writing in his [The Prolific and the Devourer] stated;

"I and the public know,
what all school children learn,
those to whom evil is done,
do evil in return."

Now we can discuss the vigilante and the vigilante's nearest kin, the fool with a cause, whose taken up arms at the whims of the charismatic man deciding that societies must fight back against the criminals, which in lieu of taking the law into his own hands, hypocritically himself turn criminal.

Kubrick's [Man With a Gun] denotes every thought that may come at the very sight and stare of his photograph, which today, with turn of events (school shootings in America, war in Syria) it is most necessary today, in this 21st century of human time recordings, where we all must gather and take from Kubrick's photography perhaps our next step on how not to only defeat the man with the gun, but rather how to keep this man from deciding that the gun is a necessity initially.