What a strange take.
I grew up in a small hunting town (I'm in my early 30s), where most high school boys (most girls didn't hunt, but some did) had a rifle and/or shotgun in their truck, mounted against the inside back of the cab where you could see it plain view.
We had 0 homicides from guns in the 19 years I lived there, there was 1 suicide by gun that I know of.
Many of us grew up hunting to feed our family. This is in Colorado.
I shot my first pistol around the age of 5.
I accidentally went to 7th grade with ammo in my pocket because we were hunting that morning. I went to the principal, he told me just to put the ammo in my locker.
With that being said, you'd be hard pressed to find a group of townspeople more respectful of guns.
It's not a gun problem, it's a culture problem.
Not saying that there's not "insecure men" out there that are the victim of marketing, etc, but a lot of us grew up with guns and see them as a tool.
I grew up in a small hunting town (I'm in my early 30s), where most high school boys (most girls didn't hunt, but some did) had a rifle and/or shotgun in their truck, mounted against the inside back of the cab where you could see it plain view.
We had 0 homicides from guns in the 19 years I lived there, there was 1 suicide by gun that I know of.
Many of us grew up hunting to feed our family. This is in Colorado.
I shot my first pistol around the age of 5.
I accidentally went to 7th grade with ammo in my pocket because we were hunting that morning. I went to the principal, he told me just to put the ammo in my locker.
With that being said, you'd be hard pressed to find a group of townspeople more respectful of guns.
It's not a gun problem, it's a culture problem.
Not saying that there's not "insecure men" out there that are the victim of marketing, etc, but a lot of us grew up with guns and see them as a tool.