Posted on 08/17/2024 11:13:01 AM PDT by rellimpank
First came the guns — the Mausers from Germany, the Carcanos from Italy — and then came the moral pretexts. These days, the American right is forever touting firearms as matters of principle or heralding them as hallmarks of a certain sort of rugged identity. But guns, before fetishists succeeded in converting them into symbols, were simply commodities, as unglamorous as washing machines.
In his crisply written and incisive new book, “,” historian Andrew C. McKevitt chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition. Sharp, fascinating, devastating, exhaustively researched and often wryly funny, this indispensable book — one of the best works of nonfiction this year — details how America came to be not just a gun country but the gun country, home to “nearly half of all civilian-owned firearms in the world” and “more than twice as many guns per person” as any other nation. It begins with a crucial yet neglected premise: Guns are not abstractions but products.
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The left refuses to grasp that firearms are just inanimate objects, like Sleepy Joe.
Unless they’re using them on the “far right” that is.
Nobody really thought too much about guns until some political factions tried to take them away. Now they want to take away your gas stove.
Becca, Becca, Becca, you ignorant slut.
And when they got here, Colt, Winchester, Remington, Browning, and Savage were already well established.
But guns, before fetishists succeeded in converting them into symbols, were simply commodities, as unglamorous as washing machines.
It would seem that this girl has never had to live without a washing machine.
Um, the American Revolution.
LOLOL!!!
Another anti-freedom ideologist, rewriting history for political purposes.
Hey Becca! How ‘bout some crap about America’s far-left politician culture, or it’s selfie or poking a cellphone all day culture? You know. Something more interesting than an old Nazi culture being brought back to life by your RATS.
Moral pretexts?
I’ve never heard the Second Amendment referred to as a moral pretext, but...
Still, the insanity of the lefturds regarding firearms is always funny.
The young guys here would go nuts to see the post WWII military surplus stores of the 1950s, not just guns, swords, and bayonets but lots and lots of foreign tripod and bipod machine guns, I almost got one as a kid for $35.00.
guns have always been tools for me.
tools to defend.
tools to protect.
tools to prevent the leftist take over of America.
From the post: “matters of principle or heralding them as hallmarks of a certain sort of rugged identity”.
No, I do not think so. I offer for you consideration. I strongly suspect our form of government would have been compromised, or at least attempted, sometime during our history if not for the provisions and protections of the 2nd amendment.
Hi.
These tools don’t understand firearms are just a tool. Many tools can kill.
5.56mm
That face explains everything; obviously liberal, looks pretty brain dead, can’t find love, can’t get laid.
I guess life really sucks when your a liberal moron.
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