The only problem I see here is that The Pitts continues to use “gun culture” without reasoned explanation as to what is meant by its use.
“Gun Culture” is journalistic mental masturbation (self-gratification in its use).
“Gun Culture” is one of those so called “whistle words” the left loves to use.
The left will use this shibboleth against anyone they disagree with (using whistle words) but when they do exactly the same thing they are to be held blameless. If you point it out you are racist, a redneck, a hillbilly, a non-thinker, knuckle dragger, or any of a whole host of other adjectives that carry negative connotations.
Remember when “coarsening of the discourse” was all the rage, that the use of surveyor’s marks on political literature (”targets”), the mere use of the term targeting, name calling and all the rest that only the right was supposedly doing was causing the coarsening of discourse?
Yeah, free speech for me, but not for thee... and of course, no consequences for me, but if you do it you will be excoriated in the press comrade.