Tag Archives: gun culture

Yemen needs an NRA.

Countries that don’t have a strong tradition of individualism often find themselves at odds, since their rights depend on what the majority wants. Like most Yemeni men, Mahmoud Shahra owns a gun and has known how to use it since childhood, although the 25-year-old activist used to leave his weapons at home. But since the […]

Unarmed Slate Writer Thinks Top Shot Can Help Liberals Understand Gun Culture.

I’m not an huge fan of Top Shot, the marksmanship is nice, but it has zero politics, zero drama, and it never mentions why owning guns is a good thing. “For people like me, who neither own a gun nor know very many people who do, the show helps counteract some of the most extreme, […]