Though the conceit here is that the NRA doesn’t act as assiduously as it can on behalf of gun owners.
So many ways to die in Texas.
“There is a breakdown in trust and a breakdown in a shared, common reality,” said Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who writes about political violence. “There is also all this social change, and social change is scary.”
When I was married to my first ex-husband, I learned a lot about guns. I also learned how to make bullets. Even after a shooting at my high-school, (jealous guy vs. alleged side guy). Even after Lennon and Reagan. That’s what a dumb, insecure teenager I was (I got married at the tender age of 20). But it was for love, lol.
But my ex still is into the whole paramilitary wannabe thing, and he’s gonna be 64 this year. He’s never been in the military or anything like that. But you know, guns make one feel safer and more masculine (I guess).
I call it “the Gun Show mentality”. The glamourization of the military and the cops masked as patriotism and civic pride gets folks who would be laughed out of boot camp or the academy all hepped up. And what percentage of police forces across the country (if not the world) are staffed by veterans?
The hunting survivalist rationale? Um yeah, how likely is it that the folks who live in my city, for example, will be reduced to shooting squirrels and rabbits for food because there’s no other food?
Deep-rooted insecurity that’s been inflated by fearmongers who don’t want to lose the profits they make from guns and their accessories is the only thing I can think of that’s responsible for such madness.
My grandfather lived in a major city (Minneapolis) and went hunting and fishing regularly for food to feed his family.
If that’s really why these guys have their many, many guns, then why is it they practice shooting at targets with human pictures/form, and don’t go out and hunt for actual food, which would at least be useful?
Someday, they say, they could if needed. Uh-huh.
A California judge has overturned the state’s ban on assault weapons, describing the popular AR-15 rifle as “good for both home and battle”.
And yet I still can’t buy hand grenades.
I want a bazooka, myself.
that blows bubbles
It’s gone.
Looks like a precursor to P. D. Q. Bach.
A funny guy:
