Can someone explain to me why military and/or hunting families are pro-gun?

[Squinch]

24. Most of today's "gun culture" exists simply because "those elite liberals" object to guns.

I think my brother is illustrative. My father hunted for sport up until the 60s when he had some epiphany and decided he didn't want to do it any more. He was your old-style hunter, had one 30-06 for the purpose. But before he stopped, he taught my brother to hunt. My brother had little interest in it. He opted out of the yearly hunting trip. When he moved out of the house, he didn't take the shotgun my father had bought him for Christmas one year. For most of his adulthood he didn't own a gun and had no interest in guns.

Then he started listening to the Oxymoron (Limbaugh) and watching Fox News. Now, in his 60's, he MUST have a gun. NO! He MUST have two! And he's going to shoot at any coyotes that stray onto his property and fuck all them libruls who object!

It is NOT the love of guns or hunting or whatever they tell you it is. It is the badge of the new republican. They love it because it makes US angry. Really.

As I said in another thread, if Democrats lodged a strong protest against summer squash, we would be pulling summer squash out of the cold dead hands of republicans.

It's not about the gun. It's about US and their need to feel some dominance over us, and their need to rub our faces in things we find abhorrent.

And PS: "We are not at war in our own backyards" should be a bumper sticker.