Gun Control & RKBA

Sorry, thanks. Noted.

This is an NYT article wherein the writer tries (with the success depending upon the reader's perspective and existing prejudices) to explain to what most would perceive as a 'typical' NYT reader that not necessarily everyone who has a gun (or more than one) is an inbred Nazi, Trump loving, Faux 'news' listening, Breitbart reading, anti-union racist redneck with no teeth who wet dreams about stringing up POC. It is guaranteed to either confirm your existing beliefs or make you disdainful of the urban sophisticates it is ostensibly targeted towards. Someone toward the gun control side would find it insightful, an RKBA adherent would probably find it patronizing.

{snip}" ...I have come to understand and appreciate arguments for more gun control. But guns are important to the culture in my conservative community in Iowa, and people around here reject most gun control legislation. So I do my best to understand where they are coming from....."

"....For me, guns always bring to mind Grandpa Leonard. I remember the first time he took me hunting. He took a shot, and a squirrel fell from the branches of the oak. “Looks like we eat stew tonight,” he said. I retrieved the squirrel, still warm, in the cool Iowa summer morning, and laid it in the pile of four or five he had already shot..."

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"Grandpa Leonard was not a Republican but a devoted New Deal Democrat. He went to his grave knowing that the policies of President Franklin Roosevelt saved his family, including 11 children, from starvation during the Great Depression. Grandpa was a pro-union coal miner, a farm hand, a road crew worker, a boat builder and a factory worker.

Today, many rural men just like him are dedicated Republicans. If Democrats want to engage rural America culturally and politically, they need to understand us, and at least some of our ideals..."