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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Guns get treated like fashion accessories and articles of declared personal identity. They’re equally treated with disregard like a pair of earrings you throw in the cupholder of the car or leave on the kitchen counter at home.

A radical change from when I was a kid 40 years ago. Gun nuts were nuts and viewed as such. Look at action movies from the ‘80s. If someone had a shitload of guns he was usually crazy.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago

See: Burt from Tremors

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

People grew up watching the crazies on TV and decided it looked cool, then became the gun nut when they got money.