From military weapon to cultural symbol: how the AR-15 has defined the US gun debate

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From military weapon to cultural symbol: how the AR-15 has defined the US gun debate
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I'm not talking about the Armalite AR-10. Myself, other gun rights activists, and redcoats (gun control proponents) are talking about weapons patterned after the Colt AR-15, which is exclusively semi-automatic.

redcoats

Fucking LOL

This is what American Civil Religion does to your brain, kids

redcoats

Oh, you're a fetishist. I get it now. Anyone who disagrees with the addition of more firearms to a country that already has more guns than people is a redcoat to you. An enemy. Not your fellow citizen, not prior service people who look at firearms as tools of war and see that in our goddamned news every fucking week now... no, we're your enemy, because we value life more than esoteric interpretations of 200 year old dogma.

Y'all give two fuckin' shits about a well regulated Militia.