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Originally Posted by Igottago
I love that the NRA seems to think any American with a gun could could turn into "Rambo" within seconds of an incident about to take place and outgun the bad guys to save the day. It would actually be funny if there weren't so many people that buy into the idea.
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A big part of this gun culture is an obsession with "manliness". Don't have a gun? You're not a man. Someone posted an advertisement directed at that earlier, and I really think many of these gun guys really do believe they could take out an armed individual that's in the process of shooting people with little trouble, likely with a shot straight between the eyes.
Not that surprising in a society where the soldier is viewed as the ideal citizen, a form of military worship where the man with the gun is seen as the bravest and most dedicated amongst all the rest. In a democracy, that kind of belief seems a dangerous thing to me.