Much of the US gun debate essentially boils down to a contest between “we should maintain domination over the working class by disarming them” and “we should maintain domination over the working class by arming ourselves”.
Notice how the “bad” gun owners are constantly portrayed as poor black people in the cities or poor rednecks in the country?
Whereas middle class suburban whites and wealthy rural landowners are the canonical image of the “responsible gun owner”. Despite the point that domestic violence handgun use in the suburbs forms a core part of the firearm murder toll.
