There Are All Kinds Of Myths About Why We Love Guns, But Myths Don’t Help Us Reduce Gun Violence At All.
by mikethegunguy
What is a myth? According to most dictionaries, a myth is a widely held but false idea or belief. And if there’s one area where myths abound, it’s in the statements made by Gun-nut Nation to justify their ownership of guns. Now I have no problem with tall tales – we all learned fairy tales as kids, we then went on to be enchanted by The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, but if you get into a discussion with someone and want to prove a particular point, you’re not about to use a rhyme from Doctor Seuss as your source.
What is a myth? According to most dictionaries, a myth is a widely held but false idea or belief. And if there’s one area where myths abound, it’s in the statements made by Gun-nut Nation to justify their ownership of guns. Now I have no problem with tall tales – we all learned fairy tales as kids, we then went on to be enchanted by The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, but if you get into a discussion with someone and want to prove a particular point, you’re not about to use a rhyme from Doctor Seuss as your source.
Unless someone wants to explain why they just went out and bought another gun. Because the one thing that nobody in Gun-nut Nation will ever admit is that they just picked up their tenth, or twentieth, or thirtieth gun because they had a few extra bucks…
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