A great question......

[Playinghardball]

[lame54]

1. If we issue food/gun stamps...

to be spent on either
They might go for it

[polichick]

2. Right-wingers don't use "wrong" and "guns" in the same sentence...

It's a commandment.

[treestar]

3. They live in this fantasy of a western movie

[HereSince1628]

4. Well, they sort of do...they were on the mentally ill like stink on a skunk

after Newtown. And the trail that LaPierre blazed was successful in many states as well as many federal agencies.

[2naSalit]

5. And most particularly

out here in the western mountainous states where killing is a sport and a protected right according to those who do a lot of squealing about "gubbamint interference" (which includes their elected mouthpieces).

[mercymechap]

6. Maybe because

they are so money-oriented......welfare takes their tax money while gun ownership doesn't.....

And, they don't mind their tax money going to corporations and wealthy farmers....because they were told by their hero Reagan that it will trickle down someday.