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hunter

(38,264 posts)
6. I'm fine with calling them gun fetishists.
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 04:41 PM
Feb 2018

Three quarters of us can't be bothered with owning a gun. Most gun owners have one or two locked away somewhere and don't think about them much. Most of us with family hunting traditions can't be bothered to hunt even when we have easy access to the necessary tools. (Frankly I'd rather go to Disneyland. If I'm visiting the forest I'll bring a camera, not a gun.)

The gun industry sells most new guns and ammunition to the fetishists, just as the alcohol industry sells most of its booze to alcoholics, something close to 90% of it.

Gun fetishes are disgusting and a public health hazard. We have to empower family, friends, and community to reject gun fetishes, just as drunk driving and smoking in the workplace were rejected.

The first sign that anybody might be a little "off" is that they want to buy guns for anything other than utilitarian purposes.

Gun fetishes need to be denormalized.






Theyre pro-massacre. Pro-dead kids. sharedvalues Feb 2018 #1
Ammosexuals crazycatlady Feb 2018 #2
riiiiiiight. lindysalsagal Feb 2018 #3
Sadists (at least SOME of them) hlthe2b Feb 2018 #4
Let's see HAB911 Feb 2018 #5
I'm fine with calling them gun fetishists. hunter Feb 2018 #6
'Assholes', but whatever... Aristus Feb 2018 #7
Locking.... DonViejo Feb 2018 #8
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