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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
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.
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I think the highlighted is taking the idea in your first paragraph too far.