Shooting Ranges Should Try To Stay Out Of The Culture Wars
There are many different ways to have a birthday party. Some people like the traditional cake and a song. Others like to meet friends at a bar, or go to a park. But, I’d imagine…
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Atlas: Today’s American Gun Culture is a Result of Mythologizing and Marketing the Old West
By Pierre M. Atlas, Indiana University In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, 70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun violence, while 92%…
Boot: The Republican Gun Cult Is What’s Infected America’s Culture
[A]s if denying that heavy rain causes flooding, Republicans continue to insist that the prevalence of guns has nothing do with the prevalence of shootings. They blame doors, video games, mental illness, “emasculated” men, family…
Fernandez: An Armed America Caused My Anxiety, Isolation, Impotence, and Directionless Rage
The “armed, self-reliant citizen” has meanwhile become ever more so, especially as various states have enacted ingenious laws allowing residents to carry handguns with no permit or training. As of 2017, there were already…
Sorry, Civilian Disarmament Advocates, but Guns Aren’t Going Away in America. Ever
There’s no reason that guns will become less important (in American culture) than they’ve been historically because the same things that motivated gun ownership, again, from the seventeenth century all the way until today,…
Kautzer: The Heller Decision and The NRA Are Part of a Campaign to Legitimize Far-Right Vigilantism
The Heller decision fueled the growth of a kind of homegrown authoritarianism that understands “militia” to include self-appointed “patriots” with the sovereign power to take life not in defense of self or law, but in support of…
Gun Controllers Fail Because They Don’t Understand America’s Geographical and Cultural Ties to Fiearms
By Cain Pence The anti-gun Biden administration and a seemingly never-ending spate of mass shootings have resulted in renewed calls for gun control. Like so many previous failed efforts, attempts to increase restrictions on civilian…
When the Gun Culture Embraces the Cancel Culture
Last April, the gun club I had been a member of for 20 years closed abruptly after having a panic attack related to the Covid-19 virus. The club had a 24/7 access system and members…
Szeliga: There’s Nothing Scary or Violent About Americans’ Increased Appetite for Gun Ownership
Marchelle Tigner, a firearms instructor, teaches a group of women how to identify which eye is their dominant eye during a class in Lawrenceville, Ga. Tigner’s goal is to train 1 million women how to…
The US Gun Culture That Has Saved Europe Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum
(AP Photo/Bert Brandt) By Miguel A. Faria, MD. Europeans like to decry violence in America, calling it America’s “gun culture” while forgetting their share of political mayhem in their own house, including violence perpetrated by…