Is this guy for real?
Who ever sees firearm ads unless you buy firearm or hunting magazines?
And I love how he ignores the fact that gun control laws have only gotten more strict since the 60’s, yet gun deaths have increased.
Who ever sees firearm ads unless you buy firearm or hunting magazines?
And I love how he ignores the fact that gun control laws have only gotten more strict since the 60’s, yet gun deaths have increased.
I think it’s reasonable to claim that firearm marketing has increasingly pushed “bigger” and “more” over the last decade. It’s also made a fashion (“tacticool”) out of firearm ownership.
Whether these are good or bad things can be discussed, but I don’t think the authors claims should be blown off.
His arguments are further blown apart with the contrast of the recent tragic events in Indiana vs. Texas.
And then he makes the leap of presuming that an aesthetic within the enthusiast community is driving a surge in mass murder. Frankly, the opposite seems more likely to me: that the shift in manufacturer focus is meeting a rising demand created by a fracturing society.