Gun culture

The Idiot’s Guide to Becoming a ‘Gun Guy’

By Everyday Gunner I’m fairly young. I’m relatively stupid. And I really have no idea what it takes to break into the stereotypical OFWG (old fat white guy) gun crowd. However, I’ve been working to…

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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%…




SHANNON WATTS: The Gun Culture Hates Us Not Because We Want to Disarm Americans, But Because We’re Women

  Cunt. Whore. Bitch. These are just some of the words my fellow Moms Demand Action volunteers and I have been called over the past nine years. We’ve become experts on the nexus between misogyny…


Busse: Today’s Gun Culture is a Mechanism for Instilling Fear

Nobody wants to hear the Hitler analogies, but the Brown Shirt paramilitary operation was not entirely dissimilar to this growing band of GOP weirdos. Like other authoritarian revolutionary movements, the Nazi party recruited disaffected citizens, armed them,…


Don’t Look Now, But After Two Years of Upheaval, the Culture is Changing…In Favor of Individual Gun Rights

By Robert B. Young, MD Over time, we’ve seen changes in focus by the hoplophobic elements of society. Originally, it was all about banning handguns or at least “Handgun Control Inc.” The “assault weapon,” that…



The Latest Cause for Media Concern: Responsible Firearms Training

Courtesy Kat Ainsworth For decades, the gun control industry has preached that all gun owners must be trained, preferably as a prerequisite to owning a firearm. If they had their way, we’d have a law…