Posted on 02/02/2016 7:25:28 AM PST by rktman
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."-Mark Twain
Canada's leading newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and The National Post, recently gave sympathetic reviews to a book by A.J. Somerset that portrayed American gun culture as racist and paranoid. In his book, Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun, Somerset's approach to American gun culture is to search for what he calls "the Wellspring of Crazy." As he says, "This is the gun culture I am after in this book: the weird stuff." Somerset dissects movie dialogues and relates juicy newspaper stories to paint a picture of Americans as driven by unreasonable fears to buy guns, or worse, as merely using their fear to excuse racist violence. He claims he is searching for cultural myths but his approach seems more like an excuse to rant than a serious attempt to understand actual cultural norms.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
M-2, I think
dang big fingers. Thanks.
Somerset undercuts his arguments by deliberately ignoring solid research by respected scholars, such as Gary Kleck and John Lott; instead, he relies upon pseudo-scientific public health activists to bolster his claims.
One might as well try to describe Jewish culture based on the claims of the Volkischer Beobachter, or African-American culture on the wilder spouting of the Ku Klux Klan. It's fine if you're flacking cheap pulp fiction but not quite up to anything approaching academic rigor.
I'll pass on any spittle-throwing declamations on a culture the author clearly neither shares nor understands. Life is too short.
Or I could be very wrong
Whatâs the difference between M1 and M2 carbines?
http://weaponsman.com/?p=8134
Thanks. I needed that.
Yes we are definitely wild and crazy guys n gals. :-)
Getcho stoopid fanger out of the trigger guard, yo.
I was pretty certain about the difference(semi or full) but probably hard to determine from the picture of the peaceful young man guarding the choir.
You are correct to put that up. There is no racist “gun culture” but GUN CONTROL is racist at its foundation. Same as the eugenics of abortion on demand.
All should see who has historically advanced both these agendas and why.
American anti-gun culture is racist and paranoid.
Paranoid, a little. Racist? Not that I’ve seen.
Bimgo. Well said...
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