Culture bundling. It’s not the guns per se; it’s the cultural bundles that come with the guns and with gun control. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1213-white-productive-gun-debate-20151213-story.html
I shoot pistol competitively. I cannot TELL you how many times people assume because I have a few pistols that I am also a trumper/evangelical/whatever else they tied to that.
About a decade ago, I suggested to Ken twe write a joint column about the coming intersection of 1st & 2nd Amendments. Specifically, how does post-Heller Second Amendment handle people who want mass armed rallies? Ken wisely suggested that we not do so, because it would have just angered everyone.
Using the tactics of one of the only groups with even less morals: cable companies
When are the young who had to go through the shooter's drill going to vote ? And how do they position on this matter?
Surprised I hadn't read this already. Thanks for the reminder of why I love legaltwitter, this kind of specificity is the tits.
I've been looking for a word to describe this phenomenon! Culture bundling: when you paint a Confederate flag on your Cybertruck
Taleb called it "thought clustering."
Well, I hadn’t read that one. Thank you.
it's all part and parcel of the culture of death; a reflexive, fear-based, deep worship of the power to kill.