7 demented ways America thinks about guns

[benEzra]

1. "Fear and ignorance" are the currency of prohibition advocates of all stripes.

Look at all the "ZOMG THREAT TO 'MURRICA" handwaving about rifle handgrips that stick out, when all rifles put together kill fewer people annually than bicycles or swimming pools, and handgrip shape is absolutely irrelevant to rifle lethality.

Or look at the fearmongering and "othering" about holders of carry licenses, when carry license holders are way less likely to commit violent crimes than even the police, and are nearly an order of magnitude less violent than the population at large.

If it weren't for fear, loathing, and exaggeration, you'd actually have to focus on the people who actually commit most gun homicides, rather than demonizing the peaceable and nonviolent because you disagree with the content of our gun safes.