I feel much the same way about “rape culture”
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Yes, that was on my mind as an analogous counterproductive overshoot
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True. For some Europeans, it's a phrase useful in trying to understand the American mindset on this issue.
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And for many metropolitan Americans too!
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I understand, as an ex-metro American!
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I disagree. Maybe it's a strategic mistake to condem gun culture, but fanatical American gun culture is the why the NRA has been able to stoke 2nd amendment paranoia.
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No doubt, but un-stoking that paranoia requires disaggregating gun owners into the fanatical minority and the reasonable majority
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Not sure. I've spent time among gun nuts, gone to gun shows, read gun magazines. There's a lot of fantasizing about violence,
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about violent scenarios, about needing massive firepower etc. Gun enthusiasts aren't sociopaths but I don't think the fantasy is
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totally unrelated to the mayhem. My unhappy conclusion is that there's a continuum
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It might in fact be more precise to say a culture of gun violence and to talk of the ideological status of gun ownership. I’ve been thinking of what it also means to talk of ‘rape culture’ — the act, rather than its instrumentalization or its ideological underpinnings emphasized
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But it’s a culture of individualism that makes ‘broad condemnation’ or ‘generalization’ an affront
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What about re-framing around a “culture of violence”?
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Did you see this from
@DavidAFrench? Surprisingly constructive from a conservative on preventing mass shootings and gun violence in general.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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