Gun Control Reform Activism

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The RWNJ types have fully bought into the cultish veneration and support of all things US Military. We have been told/taught to worship the military, police, first responders as surrogate guardian angels; sacred warriors to be endlessly reveared. We are told that if we do not do this, we are not patriotic. This faux patriotism has infected out cultural discourse (the discourse of a staggeringly, frighteningly uneducated public) to such a point that the low information voters that comprise the GOP base have accepted it as gospel into their narrow and unimaginative cosmology.

Thus, the AR15, the semiautomatic version of the military's M16, is the gun version of a support the troops sticker. The AK-47 is a Russian designed weapon that is far more reliable and inexpensive, but its long association with enemy combatants from Korea, to Vietnam, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan, keeps the it safely stigmatized from the discerning scruples of an angry, bigoted nationalist terrorist.

As with so much in our stimulus saturated consumer culture, branding is everything.