Digby & Son Unpack The Gun Culture Or Hullabaloo Versus The Guntards

Over on Hullabaloo, David Atkins does a nice job unpacking guntard culture and the deep-seated violence that surrounds race relations in America.  Our willful misunderstanding of the Second Amendment meshes well with entrenched racial fears to make the United States a uniquely paranoid and violent culture.  The guns make the killing way easy for every nut, hot-head, and guntard; without the guns the violence would not be anything close to as deadly.  Without the threat of deadly violence, the escalation of the police state would be seen for the atrocity it is.  Facing the gun violence will also help us face the racial component the guntard culture.  The 21st century is long past time for America to talk honestly about the reasons behind the violent white paranoia surrounding race, as Atkins discusses.  First remove the guns, then face the history and causes of the fear.  Without the first step, the second will not be possible.  Of course, that will mean that the culture itself is in danger of changing for the better; a lessening of rural white hatred toward the non-white Americans might allow a forging of alliances between the middle- and lower-class citizens of all races whose futures are united in every way, and who are only separated by the very convenient racial animus which makes white Americans in the lower classes so easily to manipulate against their immediate economic and social interests.  That wonderful possibility is a danger to the establishment, so don't look for much progress, or fewer guns, or less violence in American anytime soon.