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In reply to the discussion: HERE ARE THE HIGH SCHOOL GUN PHOTOS! [View all]Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)83. There is a huge sexual element to the gun fetishization in this country.
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I've lived around it my whole life and think the whole culture is disgusting and dangerous.
Ykcutnek
Oct 2014
#14
So, nobody is ever supposed to say anything bad about guns and religion because
Arugula Latte
Oct 2014
#51
And in that small community, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the guns in pics
TexasMommaWithAHat
Oct 2014
#29
I grew up in a hunting culture. In the winter, the only meat we ate was hunted meat. We didn't
Luminous Animal
Oct 2014
#48
If you're implying what I think you're implying, that certainly casts a different light
petronius
Oct 2014
#217
Wow. How lame. If that's all I had to feel excited about and connected to, I'd GTF out of there.
kysrsoze
Oct 2014
#15
Well, we have a sick, twisted gun fetish culture in this country. It really is creepy.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2014
#26
The whole gun-worshipm gun-fetish culture is creepy, deadly, and makes me sick.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2014
#34
Perfect! Thanks for the Little Britain clip. Never saw it before, won't forget it! n/t
Judi Lynn
Oct 2014
#256
So you condemn this guy also because he's part of the whole gun-fetish culture?
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#111
And we sure don't have mass media campaigns against reckless gun usage, either.
calimary
Oct 2014
#252
very tacky. why don't we have people pose with their computers and iphones as they are integral to
samsingh
Oct 2014
#39
Have no problem with hunting, but I wonder how many of those kids will end up like this.
Hoyt
Oct 2014
#46
At least they had the good sense to restrict the poses so we don't have any like this.
Hoyt
Oct 2014
#52
Probably is. No normal kid would choose to appear in a HS annual with guns, nowadays.
Hoyt
Oct 2014
#59
I suspect if the school board had been stupid enough, there would have been some of this.
Hoyt
Oct 2014
#94
You're telling us that those kids, who grew up in a hunting culture, still hunt,
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#69
I'm telling you a high school kid has a problem if gunz are that important to who they are.
Hoyt
Oct 2014
#70
He can't possibly comment intelligently AT ALL if he thinks that he can be the authority
Maedhros
Oct 2014
#96
Yeah, it's so weird how people don't like the daily high death toll from guns in this country.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2014
#159
not my cup of tea, but it's not like these kids are dressed in fatigues and pointing rifles at the
dionysus
Oct 2014
#78
Prefrontal cortex doesn't mature until age 25, so judgment doesn't mature until then.
valerief
Oct 2014
#102
Luckily they probably don't much care what you or others find offensive and innappropriate.
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#114
I think typing your title in all caps adds a certain sense of gravity and stolid reasoning to your p
LanternWaste
Oct 2014
#119
Makes it easy to point out to my granddaughter photos with a guy's priority on display.
Tikki
Oct 2014
#130
The young man in the gun photo wants to be known as a hunter, the young man in the animal rescue
Tikki
Oct 2014
#137
Please don't assume we don't understand...The photo poses were chosen to support a lifestyle choice.
Tikki
Oct 2014
#152
That has nothing to do with these photos. These young people and their families approve...
Tikki
Oct 2014
#157
So you are saying...No one has to hunt for food!! Don't tell me, tell those here that remind us...
Tikki
Oct 2014
#194
I have no problem understanding...talk to those who say people must hunt for food or starve.
Tikki
Oct 2014
#204
How does this: 'ODDS are they aren't hunting daily for their food to stay alive'....turn into
Tikki
Oct 2014
#206
In all honesty this goes back to a debate a while back here on whether there should be
Tikki
Oct 2014
#213
So...Los Altos Hill California...in a gun control State has not had a murder in a decade.
Tikki
Oct 2014
#163
I never said they were dangerous. I said, this is the way these young people want to be defined...
Tikki
Oct 2014
#169
Lookit how clean that truck is. Ugh, there's nothing worse than affluent fake rednecks. nt
LeftyMom
Oct 2014
#236