Gun enthusiast

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Gun enthusiast or Gun nut is an American colloquial term that describes firearms "hobbyists" who are very involved with the gun culture.

Based on how firearms and weapons are perceived and the intention of those using the term it will have different connotations.

Positive Conservative Pro Second Amendment Perception

To the Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, and to most conservative libertarian citizens, preppers, patriots, Veterans, Oath Keepers, "gun nuts" and from a Bill of Rights perspective, being a firearms enthusiast is a positive quality reflecting self-reliance and the maxim that "a right not used is a right lost." Being a gun enthusiast is an admirable trait to these above types of people, since the unalienable rights of the Second Amendment act as the primary deterrence against big government Nanny state-Police state tyranny.[1] Thus the "gun nut" slogan of Molon labe laconically represents that deterrence.

When the Japanese forces plotted their attack on Pearl Harbor they first discussed attacks on the mainland of the United States. As Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto[2] is said to have replied when asked about invading the U.S. mainland, "There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." On April 13, 1924 at the rank of captain, Yamamoto was part of the Japanese delegation visiting the U.S. Naval War College.[3] As history shows, they didn't attack the mainland of The United States, but rather attacked Pearl Harbor instead.[4]

Thus most gun owners embrace the term "gun nut" affectionately. This is evidenced by many popular gun blogs, gun podcasts, forums and outdoors magazines such as Field and Stream using the term positively. Field and Stream has a column called "The Gun Nut".[5]

Negative Liberal Gun Control - Anti-Rights / Anti Second Amendment Perspective

To Nanny state - Police state liberal "gun grabbers the term "gun nut" or "gun enthusiast" is an insult (see liberal slander and liberal hate speech). For such leftists the term is regarded as a pejorative stereotype hurled at gun owners by gun control activists as a way of suggesting that they exhibit abnormal behavior, are fanatical, or even are a threat to the safety of others.[6][7][8][9][10]


See Also

Template:Second Amendment groups


References

  1. ↑ Massad Ayoob, "Armed citizens: the deterrent factor", Backwoods Home Magazine, Website Exclusive January/February, 2001. http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob0109.html Accessed December 28, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-202941.html and http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-248312.html Yamamoto quote - authentic? Accessed December 28, 2014
  3. ↑ 1920–1929. Chronology of Courses and Significant Events. U.S. Naval War College.
  4. ↑ Christian News (a Lutheran journal published in New Haven, Missouri) published on 4 February 2002 the following: "In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces. Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other. Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unpreparedness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast. Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question. 'You are right,' he told the Americans. 'We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.'"
  5. ↑ The Gun Nut blog at Field & Stream Accessed December 28, 2014
  6. ↑ "Shoot-out Confirms Foreign View of America as 'Gun Nut' Country" by T.R. Reid, The Buffalo News, July 26, 1998
  7. ↑ "Massacres Fail to Sway Gun Nuts and their Lobbyists" November 7, 1991, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, California)
  8. ↑ "Small steps on gun control" Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2007
  9. ↑ "Gun nut fired over pics" by Jamie Pyatt, The Sun (UK)
  10. ↑ "'Terror in Capitol' No Surprise to World" By T.R. Reid, Washington Post, July 26, 1998

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