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Soccerdad1995 wrote:
A lot of these guns must be wearing out very quickly if gun ownership is truly decreasing.

Boating accidents. The bottom of the lakes and rivers must be covered with firearms.

Scott Farkus wrote:There is a lot to say about that whole article, but I found this paragraph in particular to be troubling.

And when you say something is part of your culture, you're placing it beyond reasoned judgment. Its status as a component of culture infuses it with value that can't be argued against. I don't tell you that your religious rituals are silly, because they have deep meaning for those within that culture. Your ethnic group's traditional music may not be pleasing to my ears, but I'm not going to argue that it sucks and you ought to start listening to real music, defined as whatever I happen to like. The food your parents taught you to make from the old country might not be to my taste, but I'll appreciate it (at least once or twice) as a window into another aspect of our rich human tapestry.

First of all, nobody is arguing that we have a right to keep firearms as part of a "culture". We're arguing that we have a right to keep firearms because the 2nd Amendment says we do. And if you want to scratch even deeper, the 2nd Amendment is there to codify/clarify a natural right that the founders considered self-evident. It has nothing to do with a "culture"; if anything, that's a card HIS side plays with regularity.

Second, people like this author most certainly do tell people that their religious rituals are silly. Not only that, they have increasingly pushed laws and social conventions that force religious people to choose between their beliefs and their ability to make a living or even participate in the public arena. He's just flat out lying when he claims otherwise.

I have utterly no clue what his point is about ethnic music or food from "the old country". Am I missing something?

Like the term "assault rifle" the left is using "gun culture" as a baseball bat to beat everyone within reach of their words. Their culture is so hopelessly corrupt and evil, all they can do is point out the perceived faults of everyone who disagrees with them in the least amount. Often they will demonize their own if one of them happens to point out hypocrisy in their position or actually embraces a fact or two.
Like their beloved cultural leader BHO, who still desires to fundamentally change America, they are evil.

Abraham wrote:Never heard of Paul Waldman in "The Week" - Neither he or the magazine.

Probably because it's a leftist skewed rag I wouldn't read were it given to me.

I'd never heard of "The Week" or the author before today either. The article was linked at a blog I read. I don't go to leftist sites, but I do read stuff like this because it's good to keep up with the thoughts of the opposition.

To my former countrymen,
Paul Waldman in "The Week" recently wrote an article titled "America's made-up culture of guns." http://theweek.com/articles/763866/a...p-culture-guns. He uses many words attempting to explain how we must better understand your positions and make concessions to you. He talks about these things to make himself and you feel better about your positions, and ends up denigrating us deplorable people anyway, because that is the default position of progressive socialists. He wants us to be more "accepting" of your culture and understand how you don't want guns in your society.
Mr. Waldman asserts household gun ownership has fallen from 50% to 32%, mostly due to more people living in big cities and not rural areas. Yet, he fails to note than millions of citizens living in those big cities are unable to own firearms due to the anti-2A policies of the left, while armed criminals terrorize and kill unarmed law abiding citizens without fear of encountering an armed victim.

It’s not just your anti-gun culture that is in opposition to the culture of those of us who exercise our 2nd amendment rights. Your culture of depravity in media, lifestyles choices, pseudo science, nanny state, killing unborn children, open borders with unchecked illegal immigrants, forced acceptance of behaviors that not too long ago were considered mental illnesses, assault upon our freedom of religion and speech and general willingness to demonstrate that you despise us for being unlike you that is in opposition to values we hold.
Every inch we’ve ever yielded to you in the culture war has only emboldened you to push for a mile.
Well, we’re just not going to take it much more. Your side has pushed and derided and declared war upon us. Now that you can see there may be unintended consequences to your actions you want to extend an olive branch?
Sorry, experience shows us that you don’t mean it and next week you’ll be slapping us with your gloves in challenge to something else about us you don’t agree with.
We have shown a willingness to allow you your depravity in some states while desperately trying to keep some states for ourselves. Yet, you are unwilling to let us be as we have been to allow you to live as you see fit. We see that you will never be satisfied until you have crushed those who think and act and live their lives differently than you.
There exists no longer a “united” states of America, you progressive socialists have destroyed it. So, I leave you with this,
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”