A politically correct assortment of fetishists, tax collectors, lawyers, sadists and homosexuals make strange bedfellows. A person who loves guns more than his neighbors and is more concerned with his lifestyle than his civic duty is willing to make too many compromises. Those who are suspicious of the ones who make these associations for the sake of their hobby are unjustly derided as hoplophobes.
The public image of the gun culture is not good. Hollywood and its political allies have made a mockery of gun owners from both ends of the spectrum and down the middle. The innocent helpless public is caught in the middle between destructive warring factions of stereotypical good guys and bad guys who bump elbows and rub shoulders in barrooms and internet forums comparing and admiring each other’s hardware when off duty. Gun owners of all stripes perpetuate these memes by buying into the glamorous Hollywood images provided to them.
Are we comfortable comparing notes with serial killers and terrorists who misuse the tools that we like to pretend are Liberty’s teeth instead of icons to console us in our fear? Without any sense of civic duty, self-defense is merely selfish defensive posturing.
INGO has banned the baby and kept the bath water with which to make Kool-Aid. It may be palatable to some but it is still bath water.
The public image of the gun culture is not good. Hollywood and its political allies have made a mockery of gun owners from both ends of the spectrum and down the middle. The innocent helpless public is caught in the middle between destructive warring factions of stereotypical good guys and bad guys who bump elbows and rub shoulders in barrooms and internet forums comparing and admiring each other’s hardware when off duty. Gun owners of all stripes perpetuate these memes by buying into the glamorous Hollywood images provided to them.
Are we comfortable comparing notes with serial killers and terrorists who misuse the tools that we like to pretend are Liberty’s teeth instead of icons to console us in our fear? Without any sense of civic duty, self-defense is merely selfish defensive posturing.
INGO has banned the baby and kept the bath water with which to make Kool-Aid. It may be palatable to some but it is still bath water.