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162. A country that abhors war trains its citizens to view firearms...

As necessary tools of last resort. There is no implication of the firearm as a hobby or as recreation. There is no massive gun industry churning out gun pornography.

The American gun culture is precisely that which the Swiss are not. We view guns not as tools of last resort or survival. They are toys for our own amusement. We rarify our perception of firearms with movies and magazines and lobbying groups. We make firearms easily accessible with little or no training and little or no prior authorization.

We construct the idealized male machismo as inseparable from the gun. So we have raised a population that cannot help but view firearms as primary means of coercion while also rewriting the consequences of firearms through film and other propaganda that paints guns and death in a positive light.

Do not try to tell me that our gun culture is voluntary and that every single citizen is not changed by it. That would be an absolute lie.