The National Anthem of Gun Culture...

[onehandle]

[Historic NY]

1. I'm beginning to think we nuked the wrong country...

can we get a re-do.

[mwrguy]

4. It would go something like this:

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Seriously? Unbelievable

If I made a statement like that about New York, then I would be banned. As I should be.

[NYC_SKP]

2. So I did a YouTube search for "gun song"...

You could put together a whole album for the Gun Culture

This person is a gun nut, a musical one at that.

Other titles:

"Never Catch a Falling Gun" and "The Day My Sig Went Sauer"

And the Gun Ban song...

[bobclark86]

3. So... does this mean...

every single person who owns a gun, is a racist southern piece of shit? Is this what you are saying?

I wish my world was as black and white as yours...

[busterbrown]

10. Take the word Southern out and its 80% correct....

20% are probably into the sport.. But the protect my home fear thing? It’s all about the the Racial Home Invasion
thing..

[bobclark86]

12. Yeah, no. It's not always racism to worry about that.

I'm far more worried about a white guy (or gal) breaking into my house looking for meth-making materials and Oxy than any black man. In my area, it's about four to five times as likely. I know, I process police blotters as part of my job. Hell, even our big "fall harvest" drug roundups (that would be a string of indictments handed down about 30-60 days before an election ... take a guess why that is) are about 10 to 1 white vs. black.

Not that I'm the kind of guy who carries a penis extension (err, big black handgun) to take a shit or go to Walmart. I legally can, but I chose long ago that is not an option for me. Hell, I'd have to key at least three locks to get something out in an "emergency," so I'm better off with a cricket bat. Besides, everyone just thinks I'm a weird British guy if I walk down the street with that stuck down the front of my pants

[busterbrown]

14. I wondered if I would hear from guys like you..

Thanks!!! But I have to say I think you are in the minority...But your point is well taken..

[AtheistCrusader]

5. This kind of shrill smear by association bullshit is part of the reason none of us can get

anywhere on this issue. There are more gun owners than there are registered republicans in this country, and they are not distributed solely in the south.

This 'contribution' is not helping.

Some of us would actually like to pass some legislation that might make a difference, and here you are, manufacturing recruitment fodder for the other side.

60+ million is a fair fucking chunk, if you first deduct all the people who have been through our criminal justice system, and sub-18 year olds for long guns, sub 21 year olds for pistols.
https://apha.confex.com/apha/133am/techprogram/paper_109135.htm
Oregon has a higher ownership rate than Texas. Washington is just under Texas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/guns/ownership.html
By party affiliation
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/12/19/gun-ownership-political-affiliation/
Look at all those Democrats you just smeared with this shit.

[another_liberal]

6. Just because you own a gun . . .

You are not a rabid "Gun rights advocate" just because you own a gun. Most of the people you list as statistics are in favor of stricter gun laws. The NRA and gun manufacturers control of State and Federal legislators is the problem. Their money, not the feelings of a majority of American gun owners, is what drives our country's gun craziness.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. In our state we can do citizens initatives. No dice.

Despite being a solidly blue state, hasn't failed to roll out electoral votes for a single Democratic Presidential Candidate in my lifetime, two Democratic senators. A officially D-leaning state legislature...

We just torched another attempt at an assault weapons ban, and made silencers legal.

This is not an up-down party issue. Until people come to realize that... we're just making noise here folks. And demonizing people is the least productive form of that noise.

My father, a Vietnam vet, and lifetime Union worker, member of the Democratic Party, falls within the constraints of 'gun culture' or 'gun rights advocate'. Mom too (though not a Vietnam vet).

This kind of bullshit is not appreciated, and convinces no one of anything, except just how shrill someone can be on an issue.

[another_liberal]

15. There are all kinds of reasons why law-abiding citizens . . .

Well of course. There are all kinds of reasons why a law-abiding citizen might need to have a silencer or a military grade machine gun. Seems perfectly reasonable.

(sigh)

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Silencers are required at public ranges in many european countries whose gun control some of us seek

to model. It's a safety feature, not an assassination tool or whatever.

[busterbrown]

11. They do it with their rhetoric of how guns are needed to protect your family..

Spend millions and millions on instilling fear into the country and it works on those who are inclined to believe this bullshit...If your not using your gun solely for sport, I question your motives for possessing a gun..

[another_liberal]

16. Owning guns is fine with me.

It's what kind of guns you might want to own, and where you might want to carry them that could cause me to object.

[NYC_SKP]

7. I don't let it get me down because I know it represents about 0.003 percent of US opinions...

...on the matter.

The percentage may seem larger on this board after tragic events like this.

[rdking647]

9. i prefer this version

[blackspade]

18. Sung by people with no grasp of history.

As a southerner, I'll spell it out for the tea-baggers and other racists:
The old Confederate states are not a separate nation.
They challenged Washington in an effort to maintain their stave based economy.
Guess what? They fucking lost. Period. Done.

The south they are glorifying died in the 1860s and we are all better off for it.
I used to be pretty 'meh' about the Confederate battle flag, now I think of it in the same light as the Nazi flag.

[The Magistrate]

19. This, Sir, Would Be Much More Suitable....