Surprised the author didn't sprain something with all that reaching. Firearms marketing is basically only visible to anyone who already is sufficiently interes

Surprised the author didn't sprain something with all that reaching. Firearms marketing is basically only visible to anyone who already is sufficiently interested in firearms (or activities pertaining to them) to seek it out in magazines or on the walls of gun stores. To assert that the sorts of marketing materials the author describes is somehow a cause of gun violence to any significant degree (at all, let alone moreso than socioeconomic factors like financial hardship and mental health issues) is a pretty blatant inversion of causality for that reason. The one exception might be video games, and that's still a stretch when you consider how far removed the in-game performance of "real world" weapons tends to be from reality (and is pretty squarely debunked when you remember that all those attempts to link video games with violence have been pretty thoroughly refuted when examined with even the slightest bit of scientific rigor). No, socioeconomic inequality and the ownership class' success in convincing the working class to take it out on themselves has given the US a national nightmare. And don't even get me started on the conflation of "likes guns" with "right wing". There are leftist gun owners, contrary to what the author wants to portray.