You know what? I agree. Every time I see a picture of some dude with three or four pistols and a rifle slung over his shoulder, I think “attention whore.”
It’s gross.
But not as gross as grown men with fake breasts dancing sexually in front of kids.
I think guns have moved from an object to be seen as protection to a symbol of rebellion and resistance.
But it wasn’t us who pushed them that way.
Politicians made guns an object to be reviled and feared. So we mock your fear by flaunting what you fear.
The AR-15 specifically. I get the GOP wore AR-15 pins a few weeks back. It was a middle finger to those who want to blame inanimate objects and lie about their real intentions.
But it was dumb and gross.
But the arguments against the AR-15 are dumb and gross too.