Monday, June 06, 2022

This Is Turning Into My Hobby Horse

Ryan Busse, writer of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America, explained, "There's also this gun culture now developed since Barack Obama became president in 2008, but really a hateful conspiracy-driven, racist-driven gun culture that's on the fringes and that is the part of gun culture that's taken over much of the politics and spurred many people to march on Jan. 6 and part that's controlling the politics now."

I did not pay him to say that; or this: 

He said that it isn't just that gun companies are praying on fear. They're actually creating the fear. When Obama was elected, for example, pro-gun groups believed that their guns were about to be taken away. So, they stocked up on guns and bullets with the anticipation that the country was about to end. It never did and Obama never took away any guns. But the gun manufacturers made a lot of money by scaring people into buying the weapons.

Fear has been the major driving force in our politics since 2008. And if there is any one source for this continuing American madness:

It is the gun manufacturers. But now that we know that, what do we do? 

1 comment:

  1. Nothing is going to change until there is an active shooter in the Supreme Court Building or in other places billionaires and their servants gather.

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