re: #4 lawhawk

I think a thing that needs to be addressed—culturally and legally—is that the “right to bear arms” has become synonymous with “the right to use lethal force” and in turn the NRA and the GOP have been manipulating the paradigm of who gets to kill when and how.

The NRA’s back end is the way it has turned the basic concept of self-defense into a cultural manifesto in which there are not-really-American others that deserve contempt and are inherently suspicious…and thus fall into the category of deserving harm, because they’re inherently “provoking.”