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In reply to the discussion: Newspaper Publishes Gun Owners’ Names and Addresses [View all]Indydem
(2,642 posts)Try again.
Most of the shooters in mass murders haven't done most of those things. Most guns are stolen or purchased illegally. Most of them have never been to a firing range, and if they were it wasn't a regular occurrence.
Some of them had never even fired a gun before.
And if those were the identifiers of "gun culture" I would have to think about it, but even those don't define the group you are trying to demonize.
"Gun culture" is a social phenomenon. People talk about guns, they shoot together, they hunt together. They chastise talk of inproper use of firearms, and anyone who doesn't follow proper safety etiquette is ostracized. Anyone who would ever propose, mention, or allude to a mass murder of anyone would be immediately shunned and most likely reported to authorities as a danger.
You want to heap all of your worst hatreds of gun and violent crazies on "gun culture" and you don't even know anything about it.