America was brainwashed into its relationship with guns by marketing.
I think about that a lot. Today’s gun culture is the result of marketing. What gun nuts think is a constitutional legacy of gun rights was manufactured by people and companies that benefitted.
As someone who worked in advertising and marketing, it is not hard to see how marketers found emotional triggers and then just pounded them for decades.
Entire generations now fully believe what they’ve been spoonfed.
Companies that profited from gun sales silenced some of the opposition with donations.
And then politicians discovered it could be used as a wedge issue.
It had nothing to do with the constitution or even guns.