Originally Posted by
Baylor
This is how clear I was:
The problem was that the statement in what you quoted wasn't the question that I asked and so your answer was ambiguous.
You disagree that the gun is held in high esteem in the USA? That seems at odds with reality. There are for example 14 million people who will claim to be members of the NRA. That's almost 5% of the population. What other organisations have equal membership in the USA? Triple A has 58m members I think so we can say the gun is probably held in less high esteem than the car.
I mean its all relative but it would seem to be held in higher esteem than say:
- the right of human beings not to be owned as slaves
- the right of a woman to have autonomy over her body and reproductive functions
- the right of individuals to have access to healthcare regardless of ability to pay