Citation needed. Anecdotally, there’s a direct correlation between the vociferousness of someone’s arguments for “gun rights” and the likelihood that they’ll post a picture of themselves mishandling a firearm. Less anecdotally, it’s under-studied, but from what research I’ve seen, I’d say those are typical attitudes. In part because those attitudes about guns extend to the culture at large, far beyond those who actually own them. Most Americans buy guns for “self defense” (which, in practical terms, amounts to little more than a power fantasy), and only 60% have had any safety training at all. The “self-sufficient” frontiersman mythos is alive and well.
Toxic Gun Culture is alive and well in America because American culture is Toxic Gun Culture.
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