Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And the lawyers for the family of Sandy Hook victims pointed this out in their lawsuit.
You know, in which, you know, pointed out that the company that marketed that particular weapon, it really had a concerted effort to get it embedded in video games.
So there is a whole culture of fun and guns that has, I think, to some extent has always kind of been there going back to when men especially like to join gun clubs and they'd go off into the woods at a lodge for a week.
But there were sort of genteel affairs, and I think the gun industry has taken this and put it on steroids in the last several decades.
And there are a number of these things that I consider to be sort of like oases of violence dotting, especially the Southwest, places like Arizona and New Mexico, where you can go and you can pay a lot of money to spend a lot of time
With very, you know, powerful weapons, sometimes even if you're under proper supervision, fully automatic machine guns, which otherwise you cannot get or use in the United States.
Most people can't.
And yeah, I mean, they're kind of marketed as not just like family-friendly, some of them are, but then there's also a whole kind of element of masculinity, manhood-affirming things about guns, which I think a lot of people who kind of look at the gun violence problem think,
are concerned about because they think it's sort of appealing perhaps in some cases to especially troubled young men who want to feel powerful and they're looking for some quick and easy way to do that.
And the marketing, some of it's very bald and out in the open.
I mean, there was advertising for the Bushmaster AR-15 type rifle at one time that basically said, in a world of rapidly depleting testosterone, the Bushmaster man card declares and confirms you're a man's man.
I mean, that was paired up with an ad for marketing of an AR-15, and, you know, it's subtle as a brick.
So, I mean, they know what they're doing.
They know that this works, and they know that this is an effective marketing tool.
It just, what it says about, you know, the culture around guns and the state of, you know, kind of young men and boys today, which is a whole other issue, which I think people are concerned about,
Yeah, the gun industry has done a very good job of kind of selling the idea of self-defense in this kind of sugary wrapper of fun and excitement.
So at its core, they still rely a lot on fear of crime to market guns, and it's very successful.
If you ask most gun owners what's the reason they bought their gun, it would almost always be self-defense.
But at the same time, you do see the industry kind of providing this entertainment aspect to it, which I find fascinating because years ago when I was writing about these issues in the 1990s, I visited a place similar to this in Kentucky.
And even at that time, they were doing similar things.
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