Taking a quick break from Will’s Social Stimulus Plan, to ask a question about gun owners.
I’ve been cruising the conspiracy theory site Above Top Secret for awhile and the gun rights advocates there have got me thinking.
The site is filled with very vocal gun owners who are radically opposed to any type of gun control. Any political thread introduced to the site, be it about the economy or congress, is fair game for the Second Amendment to be brought up. And lately it has been brought up a lot, with New World Order, One World Government, Obama the Socialist theorists frantically posting about any perceived threat.
I’d blame it all on site members but I’ve seen the same anti-regulation vigor in numerous other places. Most famous would be the late Charlton Heston’s proclamation that he’d only relinquish his gun after he was dead.
What is it about guns that inspires such passion in some Americans?
That brings me to another question which delves slightly deeper into the one above, what is it about gun ownership that has caused it to become so intrinsically linked to being American and to the freedoms that we are guaranteed?
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