To the contemporary American right, “More guns” is the answer to a whole range of problems.

School shootings? We should have more guns in school…what could go wrong?

Illegal immigration? We need more guns at the border pointed at Mexico.

Crime in general? We need more Zimmermans running around playing cop. Again, what could possibly go wrong?

Rape? More women should carry guns to just “shut that whole rape thing down.”

This is simplistic, dangerous, hyper-macho thinking. Sadly it dominates conservative discourse these days.