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So the NYT is going to tell its urban readers why gun culture is so strong in rural America? Let me guess - it has something to do with the fact that rural Americans are ignorant racists who want to use guns to shoot gays, blacks and women who get out of line.
What a steaming pile of patronizing horse hockey.
"...New York Times..."
In order for this to happen you would have to be a completely emotion driven irrational drone with a IQ lower then room temperature. There are no rational sane arguments "for gun control". It is a wholly irrational emotional poltical postion based on a total ignorance of the topic.
A truth ... most media, all liberals, all criminals and all moslems hate Americans because Americans refuse to be stupid !!!
So the Sauvé uber cool Times sends a reporter out to Lard Bucketville, Sticks and Hicks County to see why mouth breathing rednecks like them thar guns?
Oh I so want to read more. Yes I do.
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“I worry that the ready availability of guns contributes to the number of suicides in rural America. Nothing crushes a small town like a suicide, as nearly everyone knows the victim or a family member.”
Maybe Mr. Leonard could be enlightened by googling “youth suicide Japan” and learn that on average, 4600 youths between 10 and 21 kill themselves annually, particularly around the time when the school year is about to start and also during the high school national exam period. It is also not a particularly uncommon thing for Japanese men to come home and tragically discover that the wife has killed herself and their children. And yet, the NYT people like to lecture about how strict Japanese gun control laws are and how they are accompanied by far lower homicide rates.
Because there’s a lot of s#it that needs shooting!
So even though the dire warnings about expanded concealed carry never came to pass, and even though the Scary Looking Guns ban accomplished nothing regarding crime and murder rates, you have concerns. Liberals run with emotions, not facts, and that is why I have given up even bothering to present facts to them. Might as well be presenting facts to a raccoon for all the good it does.
Anyone who calls it “gun culture” doesn’t understand American culture. They only understand their big city hive culture. We want guns, more horsepower, 5 different sizes of soft drinks at 7-11, a choice of jobs, the home that we like, etc. This is because we are Americans and we can have all that if our skills, talents, and work ethic permits.
Of all those things, only the gun permits us to tell Progressive Communists who want us to have no guns, no horsepower, no soft drinks, no 7-11, the job they want us to do, and the apartment they assign to us.
Screw them! Give them their cities and we’ll keep our productive red counties.
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This is by no means the kind of article I would have written. But I will give the author points for at least making an attempt at getting people who live outside the large population centers and their values. All in all it’s not great or even especially good. But it is not horrible. And the mere fact that the Times actually published it is surprising.
You needum guide, bwana?
Me best guide and interpreter, keep safe.
“At one point Michelle turned to me and said, ‘You know, if I was living in a farmhouse where the sheriff’s department is pretty far away and somebody can just turn off the highway and come up to the farm,’” he said during a CNN town hall on guns in America. “‘I would want to have a shotgun or a rifle to make sure I was protected and to make sure my family was protected.’”
What “gun culture”
No, but the statistics should make liberals give up their gun control ideas.
Make no mistake: These statistics and the deaths behind them sadden rural gun owners just as much as they sadden you.
I guess the NYT as least knows that not many rural people read their paper.
Grew up in the Bronx to Davy Crockett and Wyatt and Hickock and all the tv westerns. Dad had been a WW 2 marine and was NYPD. He help me feed my need for all things Guns.
Sorry NY Slimes. I had other friends growing up in NYC who we’re gun aficionados. Not as much as country boys but we were a definite presence.
Not one sentence in that article that maybe Grampa Bob and his rural friends view guns as a way to keep the tyranny of govt out of their face. Or that urban and suburban dwellers are pretty heavily armed themselves. Just another pro gun control article trying not to look like it.
We grew up hunting and that is just the way it was. We ate what we killed unless it was vermin. We recognized that a firearm is just an instrument and a tool. It could be used for hunting or protection.
I have multiple degrees in the hard sciences. I am not a troglodyte as the left wing would like to portray me. A weapon is a tool and not the problem.
Oddly West Virginia is economically depressed and has one of the highest rates of firearm possession in the United States and one of the lowest murder rates in the United States. I would really like liberal pundits to explain this.
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Now do “Why the Constitution is so Hated in NY Times Culture”.
“Gun Culture”. BS. This is the law of the land, you liberal hacks. (not you reaganaut, I think you know I am addressing the liberal HACKS who wrote the headline...)