gun culture
Weaponry social norms
Gun culture refers to the attitudes, practices, and traditions surrounding firearm ownership and use in a society—particularly American society, where gun ownership is widespread and constitutionally protected.
The term encompasses recreational shooting, hunting, self-defense ideology, and the political movements defending gun rights.
It can be used neutrally or critically: Gun culture runs deep in rural America; Critics blame gun culture for mass shootings.
- firearmProjectile weapon using explosives
- Second AmendmentConstitutional gun rights clause
- concealed carryLicensed hidden weapon possession
- self-defenseProtecting oneself from harm
- frontier spiritDrive to tame wilderness
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- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
- firearmsrifle, pistol, handgun, shotgun, revolver
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license