Gun control is not a cultural battle

[billh58]

1. The NRA and its apologists

have made the entire "gun culture" advertising campaign a cultural battle in order to sell more guns, resulting in more gun deaths. They twist proposed gun control measures into something nefarious based on the lie that "Democrats want to take away your guns."

Their other cultural mantra is that banning certain types of lethal weapons which were designed for mass killing on a battlefield, is "infringing on our God-given and Constitutional right to own any type of firearm I want, and fuck you if you don't like it." Couple that with the far-right call for the vigilante summary justice of stand-your-ground and "castle doctrine" insidious laws (see ALEC and the Koch Brothers), and you have an out-of-control culture of violence and death by guns.

So, in a very real sense the fight for sensible gun control legislation is a "cultural battle" against the inbred cultural insanity of the unfettered proliferation of firearms and the health risk they impose on the American public as a whole.