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It's not "christian

NCD — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:57:11 +0000

It's not "christian nationalists" that are the problem. The Republican Party is the problem. Blocking sane gun laws is one of their top reelection strategies.

The Clinton Assault Weapons Ban which the Republican Party let expire in 2003, banned the guns and magazines used in both these massacres.

The Republicans exploit fear and gun obsessions for votes, and will not write any sane gun legislation. Only Democrats will do that.

The guy in Ohio killed or wounded 30+ people in 30 seconds with an AK-47 with a 100 round drum magazine.

California has a ban more strict than the Clinton ban, and the SCOTUS including Scalia ruled no 2nd Amendment right to own an assault weapon, or big magazines.

So "christian nationalists" in California have to cling to other weapons. Tough. They get used to it, it may even save their lives.

“Mental Illness, Mass

artappraiser — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:57:26 +0000

In reply to Gun Control in the Crosshairs: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Stricter Gun Laws

“Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms” - our article addressing this false narrative, @AMJPublicHealth https://t.co/jbmOsfEjvz
— Jonathan Metzl (@JonathanMetzl) August 4, 2019

Reading the abstract

artappraiser — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:25:58 +0000

In reply to Gun Control in the Crosshairs: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Stricter Gun Laws

Reading the abstract

Despite increasingly frequent mass shootings and a growing dissatisfaction with current gun laws, American opposition to federal gun legislation remains strong. The authors show that opposition to stricter gun control is closely linked to Christian nationalism, a religious cultural framework that mandates a symbiotic relationship between Christianity and civil society. Using data from a national population-based survey, the authors show that Christian nationalism is an exceptionally strong predictor of opposition to the federal government’s enacting stricter gun laws. Of all the variables considered, only general political orientation has more predictive power than Christian nationalism. The authors propose that the gun control debate is complicated by deeply held moral and religious schemas that discussions focused solely on rational public safety calculations do not sufficiently address. For the substantial proportion of American society who are Christian nationalists, gun rights are God given and sacred. Consequently, attempts to reform existing gun laws must attend to the deeper cultural and religious identities that undergird Americans’ beliefs about gun control.

I was immediately reminded of Obama in 2008 regretting publicly...Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

That gun control is symbolizing something else to these voters, that it's not really about gun control. How can one delink gun control and Christian nationalism is an important question? How can one make gun control more just like about having to have a driver's license to drive a car?

Support of police officers hasn't been able to do it. That's because there is a fear of the law and authority here?

Is it a contrast to Christian nationalist types of other nations? Or not?