Gun control is not a cultural battle

[billh58]

8. The whole NRA Culture War construct

is nothing more than the right-wing gun lobby ramping up its base in the same fashion that Newt and his buddies did with the faux Liberal/Conservative cultural divide during the Raygun years.

Here is the NRA's darling Sarah Palin spouting NRA garbage at the 2013 NRA Convention:

"This is not a battle about gun rights," Porter said, calling it "a culture war."

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Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people.

She said while she and others were saddened and angered by December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the emotions that have resulted from it won't make anybody safer and won't "protect the good guys' rights."

The former governor of Alaska asked those at the convention to "keep the faith" and "stand up and fight for our freedoms."

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/05/nra-convention-2013-sarah-palin-and-culture-war-88356.html

The right-wing NRA and its apologists would love to create a "culture war" (where none exists) in order to walk around with guns strapped to their hips ala the Bundy Brigade. Their ideas about culture wars always include God, gays, and guns, with some extra vitriol for "Freedom-hating" Liberals.