cracked:We asked our resident Texan weapons expert to de-bullshit the gun debate. No Internet macro
cracked:We asked our resident Texan weapons expert to de-bullshit the gun debate. No Internet macro was safe.6 Things Gun Lovers and Haters Can Agree On#6. Gun Owners Aren’t a Unified GroupThere’s a certain ring of logic to the [macro’s] premise: A vast army of patriotic gun owners might provide a check to the government. Forty-four million armed angry people (minimum) could threaten the military, even in this age of flying murderbots and boat-mounted lasers. Alas, this grand army of tyranny-hating middle-aged white dudes rests on one flimsy premise: the idea that “gun owners” are a unified block. … There’s no silent, unified army lying in wait for Obama’s mad campaign of moderate health-care reform to finally go one step too far. About 55 percent of Republicans own guns, as do 40 percent of Democrats. Oddly enough, this represents a high point in gun ownership among Democrats. Our soldiers tend to mirror the country: Half of them don’t give a fuck about politics, and the other half split pretty evenly between the two parties.Read More -- source link
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