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Even when I was a Republican, I never understood people who measure freedom by how many of us walk around with guns. This is a cultural change, the spreading of the gun culture from a corner of the GOP to the entire conservative moment. /1https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1211833689627381760 …
The spread of gun worship is conservative virtue-signaling. Never liked it when I was among my old tribe, and it's gotten worse as "conservatives" try to figure out new markers for what makes them "patriots" now that they've had to sell out so much actual patriotism to Trump. /2
When I was a kid, everyone had a gun. Most of my neighbors. Teachers. (Lots more veterans in those days.) But it was not a culture of "I went for a coffee and wore my gun because damn it, I'm an American." My GOP voting family and friends never talked about guns. Why would we? /3
Among the working class guys who all owned guns, talking a lot about guns was weird. You had them, it was your right, you left it at that. We didn't measure our sense of worth by whether we were going to go face down the gangbangers around our church in the 70s. /4
I'm uncomfortable with people who worship guns and feel the need to have them nearby 24/7 not because of guns, but because I'm uncomfortable with people who worship guns. That this is now a litmus test for "conservatives" tells you something sad about conservatism. /5x
Ah, interesting point that conservatives might be using guns as markers, since they're devoid of integrity markers now.
It is also just not true, at least in the South. Probably 80% of the Democrats that ran statewide in 2018 were gun owners. Republicans think guns are a political thing but they aren’t. They’re a cultural thing. Hunting is part of Southern culture.
I agree that hunting & gun ownership has been a big part of southern culture, but it is morphing into something else. Not just hunting, but now always carrying and buying assault weapons, just because. Not everyone, but many, act like it’s a defining part of their life.
And since most in our country don’t believe in serving it...less than 1% serve in the military? No skin in the game.
You do not have to sign to murder to serve your country. Treating your neighbor as you would want to be treated is every bit as important.
Two of the most successful marketing campaigns using nonsense equivalencies: 1/ De Beers “diamonds are forever,” true love = 3x monthly salary for her engagement ring. 2/ Guns = virility.
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