Posted on 11/13/2021 4:57:48 PM PST by DoodleBob
The phrase gun culture means different things to different people. Gun enthusiasts herald and defend their constitutional right to own and use firearms. On the other hand, many gun control advocates view gun culture in the United States as a national shame, one that makes us world leaders in gun ownership and violence.
The polarization between these two camps is well-chronicled, and former firearms executive Ryan Busse finds himself smack in the middle. He calls himself “a proud outdoorsman, gun owner, father, and resident of Montana.” If there is a reasonable, sustainable middle ground between gun rights and gun control, Busse may know better than most where to plant that flag. His new book is Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America.
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Ryan Busse grew up in a family that valued guns as useful tools. He has fond memories of learning about them from his father and has passed that tradition down to his children. He grew up in a time when the National Rifle Association stood for and promoted responsible gun ownership and ethics. But he saw that stance, and the relationship between the NRA and the gun industry, change over the years toward a culture of conspiracy theories and fearmongering. At a crucial interlude, the man nominated many times for the Shooting Industry Person of The Year Award could no longer support the path he saw that industry taking.
Guns are used for recreation-- hunting, target practice, and competitions-- and self-defense in the United States. Recent studies show that the sub-culture of recreational use is falling, while that of self-defense is on the rise. Amid those trends, people are being killed in staggering numbers.
(Excerpt) Read more at kuow.org ...
Be prepared for the antis.
Take your guns and keep them under cover.
If you have any guns off the record guard them.
Of what “gun industry” company is he a former executive?
There is no middle ground, you are either for gun control or “shall not be infringed”.
The phrase “gun culture” is a talking point so a liberal can write a piece of nonsense.
The phrase ‘gun culture’ means nothing to me.
“...people are being killed in staggering numbers.”
With a properly placed shot, they don’t stagger at all, just drop on the spot.
Anything from the spaghetti-arm weenies at NPR is garbage. The NPR weenies are still upset that their BLM commie heroes were turned away by armed patriots at hundreds of communities across the US.
VP of sales for Kimber America
This is assumed and not even mentioned as part of the study. Total bogosity.
Did more people die in America from being shot, or drugs and alcohol?
Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America.
A new version of Carl Bakal’s spew THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS! from over fifty years ago? That is the hardback title. Paperback book replaced the word “THE” with “NO” (No Right to keep and bear arms.)
Kimber.
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Found this on the internet:
"Busse was the Vice President of Sales for Kimber America for 25 years until 2020 and he uses those bona fides to bolster his argument opposing a bill currently under consideration in the Montana legislature that would make it the seventeenth constitutional carry state..."
This guy is also apparently a senior policy advisor at Giffords, so he's not really occupying any middle ground - he's working to ban guns...
IIRC, John Ross used the phrase (in a positive sense) in his book Unintended Consequences. Trust the leftists to distort the meaning of terms (like "assault rifle" or "gun culture") every time they get a chance...
Coincidence that this comes out while self defense is at issue in Kyle’s trial? I think not.
He seems to take issue with the rise in self-defense use of guns without addressing why that might be the case.
I stopped reading at “NPR”.
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