The Single Most Important Fact about our Gun Culture

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4. Second Amendment apologists

at once attempt to deny that there is a gun culture in this nation, and at the same time attempt to assert that there is a "culture war" brewing concerning gun rights.

The truth is that yes, there is a right-wing gun culture in this country, which does not include the majority of American gun owners. The mere act of owning a gun does not include membership in the "cold dead hands" society of gun nuttery, nor in the minority Second Amendment absolutist gang (see Bundy "militia&quot . Gun extremists attempt to claim that they speak for ALL American gun owners, but most Americans know that is fanciful fiction on their part.

There is no culture war in this nation except for those manufactured by the neoconservative right-wing in a political and profit-motivated attempt to divide and conquer. Most Americans are in favor of reasonable gun control measures, and only a very vocal minority of gun nuts claim that ANY gun control weakens the Constitution and hinders their ability to overthrow our government by force when necessary, or to exercise summary vigilante justice on other American citizens.

To repeat: There is absolutely no "cultural war" about guns in this country, except in the small minds of gun rights extremists and the right-wing gun lobby.