Guns and Hubris

Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses another issue involved with gun ownership:  self-control.  He writes about Jovan Belcher, the football player who killed his girlfriend and himself.  Two months before the shooting Belcher had said to a friend that he would shoot her if she didn't leave him alone.  Coates says

It would seem to me that part of responsible gun ownership would not simply involve a knowledge of guns, but a knowledge of oneself. It's not enough to keep your piece on safety and under lock, if you are not employing such protections for yourself. If I have ceded control over my anger to my significant other, and have had thoughts of shooting her, perhaps I should not have guns in my house.