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Opinion | America’s Toxic Gun Culture Is Invading Our Politics


This terrifying weapons show is not a bipartisan phenomenon: One New York Times analysis reviewed more than 700 protests where people openly carrying guns showed up. About 77% of the protests, armed people “represented right-wing views, such as opposition to LGBTQ rights and abortion rights, are hostile to racial justice protests, and support support former President Donald J. Trump’s lie about winning the 2020 election.”

As we have seen at The library holds a drag queen reading session, June 16 celebration and Pride parade, the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is rapidly opposing the First Amendment’s right to peacefully assemble. Defending that right, and addressing political violence in general, requires addressing the armed threat that has become commonplace in public places, and gun culture has made it possible.


More and more American civilians have an unhealthy obsession with “tactical culture” and rifles like the AR-15. It’s a marginal movement between 81 million Americans own gunsbut it’s one of several alarming trends that have coincided with an increase in political violence in this country, along with spread of far-right groups, the explosion of anti-government sentiment and the acceptance of deranged conspiracy theories by many Republican politicians. Understanding how these currents feed each other is critical to understanding and reversing political violence and right-wing extremism.

The US gun industry has generated an estimated $1 billion in sales over the past decade from AR-15-style guns, and it has done so by using and enhancing their status as icons. quasi-myth of power, excessive patriotism and mature. Earlier this year, a investigation by the House Oversight and Reform Committee found that the gun industry explicitly markets its products by touting their military pedigree and making “secret allusions to attackers.” violent supremacy like the Boogaloo Boys.” These tactics “hit young men’s insecurities by claiming that their weapon will put them at the top of the testosterone food chain.”

This marketing and those sales come at a significant cost to the fabric of America’s society.

In his recent book “Gunfight: My Fight Against the Radicalization of America’s Industry,” Ryan Busse, a former arms company executive, described attending a rally. Black Lives Matter with their son in Montana in 2020. At the rally, dozens of armed men, some of them wearing the insignia of two paramilitary groups – 3 Percent and Holders oath – appeared, carrying an assault rifle. After one of the armed men Assaulting a 12-year-old boyMr. Busse had an epiphany.

“For years before this protest, advertising executives in the gun industry promoted a ‘tactical lifestyle’. The gun industry has created a culture that “glorifies weapons of war and encourages followers to ‘own bohemians'”.

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