In contrast to the dominant scholarly approaches, which focus on gun deviance and harm, I find there is more to firearms than criminal violence, injury and death; more to gun owners than straight white men; and more to gun culture than democracy-destroying right-wing politics. [More]
If not for “straight white men” and “right-wing politics,” you wouldn’t have any guns, you fool.
I’ve written about his DEI “gun culture” before, and rather than unifying us, as he either delusionally believes or pretends to believe for an agenda, it’s a divide-and-conquer tactic, aided and abetted by Democrat-enabling trainers: Remember, with “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.
[Via Andy M]
I’m reminded of the fable about the blind men and the elephant.
Like in that fable, the author cannot or will not see the full nature of America’s relationship with firearms. But like the blind men he does perceive parts of the whole.
“This is to say, guns are not inherently anything. They take on different meanings according to the various purposes to which people put them.”
That’s the essence of “firearm as tool.” But the overwhelming majority of Leftists cannot or will not see it.