PSA for everyone who thinks the marketing prodigies at the NRA are behind America’s voracious appetite for guns, especially the AR15: endless war sells guns, and Hollywood sells endless war.
I feel like this is such a statement of the obvious, yet people outside communities where guns are popular & vets are common (i.e. journos) are perennially clueless about the halo effect our constant warmaking has on the public.
War is our number one export. The people in the blue cities bankroll it with taxes (& in the case of SoCal market it), and the people in the red counties go out and make it (and sometimes don’t come back).
Apart from buying and selling real estate, war is the one collective commercial enterprise we are all neck deep in, from SOHO to Idaho. It’s just about the last thing we all still agree to keep doing together.
