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In reply to the discussion: 20 years of data show Austrailias gun control laws work [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)It appears more to do with culture and history than weapons policy.
Frankly, this blow up over guns is, in the words of ome DUer some 10 years ago, "a culture war by proxy." I would add that there is a huge frustration among progressives because of their inability to counter in any significant way the forces of state corporatization and oligarchy; so we choose the most photogenic enemy: Middle (and former middle) class and poor whites (largely abandoned by the Democratic Party), and labeled them as racist gun nuts. This serves to distract progs from their former values of improving society through programmatic changes in education, job security, health care, etc., in favor of ban/control of an object. And corporate interests see this gift as better than distracting the enemy. It is a defacto affirmation that the RW was right all along: Just criminalize something and rely on their one favorite social policy: Arrest and imprisonment.
Good hunting! I always look forward to dove, then deer seasons here in Texas.