Maybe you could argue the bending over backwards like this to avoid gun control has a secondary effect of reinforcing the American exceptionalism around freedom and gun ownership.
I might have mentioned this in another post but I feel the hardest challenge to any form of gun control in America is the attitudes and subconscious and overt linking of gun ownership with freedom and liberty etc.
Like Americans prevailing cultural meme that we see over in the UK is the obsession over freedom. I feel the gun lobbies did well (for their narrative) to frame the loss or control of guns as a personal attack on American freedom so to a lot of Americans it’s not control of guns but control of their minds and bodies (the irony that this doesn’t translate to women’s body autonomy shows the patriarchy in America at full strength).
So I’d say these ridiculous measures to continue to justify the levels of gun hoarding and ownership in America only reinforce the idea that guns ARE the physical manifestation of freedom.
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Maybe you could argue the bending over backwards like this to avoid gun control has a secondary effect of reinforcing the American exceptionalism around freedom and gun ownership.
I might have mentioned this in another post but I feel the hardest challenge to any form of gun control in America is the attitudes and subconscious and overt linking of gun ownership with freedom and liberty etc.
Like Americans prevailing cultural meme that we see over in the UK is the obsession over freedom. I feel the gun lobbies did well (for their narrative) to frame the loss or control of guns as a personal attack on American freedom so to a lot of Americans it’s not control of guns but control of their minds and bodies (the irony that this doesn’t translate to women’s body autonomy shows the patriarchy in America at full strength).
So I’d say these ridiculous measures to continue to justify the levels of gun hoarding and ownership in America only reinforce the idea that guns ARE the physical manifestation of freedom.
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100%!
Covid is a perfect example of that as well, the framing of an issue to divide the working class.