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Guns are as American as apple pie. From the Winchester rifle to the colt 45, the gun is an iconic symbol in this country. Shit, guns are so American that they were made a part of our constitution. From water guns to video games, guns are in our kid’s hands at an early age. I still remember playing cops and robbers, forming my hand into the shape of a gun and “pow-powing” up and down the street. My question to everyone—what fuels America’s gun fetish?
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mrschocolatestuff
Movies, song lyrics, tradition, thrill
movies- you get the visuals. expose that to kids at an early age and forget to tell them what harm guns can do- they’ll think it’s ok and mimic.
lyrics- some are extremely graphic (gun in the mouth, blow ya brains out, kill you and leave you in the trunk of your car, etc)- again, kids hear that - some will mimic..also lyrics will glorify gangster behaviors
tradition- grandpa was given a gun young, learned to shoot young- that’s passed on by generation. the problem here is- every kid is NOT the same and may not limit to hobby animal hunting…
thrill- thinking about the movie Juice… Tupac’s character held a gun for the first time, killed for the first time and thought he was God. he realized he could control who could live and who could die. the power of it all.
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Ms H
Wow, you know you are so right!!!! I remember when I was a kid and
even us girls wanted to play with the GI Joe’s because they had guns
and Barbie didn’t!!!!
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C3
Power… plain and simple.
Most of the wealth in this country was acquired with the bullet not the ballot. Horrible message, but real. Personally, I can’t think of too many positive outcomes that result from people [or armies] holding guns. I’m not naive but there are alternatives.
Of course, guns [and killing and crime] are big industries that aren’t going anywhere. There is a vested interest in kids [and adults] being turned on by guns - it feeds the machine. So the fetish is fueled by the freaks of the industry. We’re just imitating what we see.
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Joyce
My best guess: the absence of power often manifests itself in the delusion that a weapon gives one some level of control on the outcome.
Joyce
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Troublsome
I think what fuels America’s gun fetish is the fact that it is an instrument or prop rather that is glorified by society. The television always shows shooting and killings on movies that seem almost effortless and is done with no problem. A vivid picture of the aftermath of these weapons are hardly ever shown. I think the desire and passion to want to hold these objects are taught to you when you are just a child. You start off with water guns, then graduate to cap guns. After hearing the loud noise of the cap gun with nothing coming out, You get a B.B gun then a pellet gun.Then it will come the day when you encounter the real thing. Every person that I have known to pick up a real gun for the first time, Emulate in the first few seconds what they have once seen before. And a large percentage of that was seen on television. They become the most powerful person in the world, for that moment or for as long as it’s in their possession have seen some of the biggest cowards in the world hold a pistol in their pants and lose fear of everything in the world. That fear comes from the millions of images that have been portrayed to them before…
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