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	'GUN CULTURE' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Gun culture" may make sense insofar as it describes the small number of people who actually organize their financial, recreational and social lives around firearms.
		The phrase "gun culture," used to describe all gun owners, first came into use among gun control advocates who liked the pejorative spin that could be put on the term - the implication that firearms use is an irrational and outmoded holdover from the past, a tradition overdue to fade from the modern world.
		The broad use of the phrase "gun culture" is the really offensive holdover - from the days of an omnipresent liberally biased press, from which I have looked to The Washington Times for escape.
	nramemberscouncils.com /caspecial/mg030111.shtml (287 words)

	BorgBlog: Gun Culture
		This became political long before this cartoon, as right-wing gun nuts latched onto another outlandish, illogical reason to insist on their 'right' to carry weapons in what should be peaceful places.
		The shooter's purchase of the gun was completely legal - maybe, just maybe, this could have been prevented if we even had stricter background checks and someone had noticed that a kid who had been charged with stalking women was being given a gun.
		Guns are a fact of life and they provided us ulimately with the freedom we all cherish now.
	frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/borgman/2007/04/gun-culture.asp (2176 words)

	'GUN CULTURE' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Gun culture" may make sense insofar as it describes the small number of people who actually organize their financial, recreational and social lives around firearms.
		The phrase "gun culture," used to describe all gun owners, first came into use among gun control advocates who liked the pejorative spin that could be put on the term - the implication that firearms use is an irrational and outmoded holdover from the past, a tradition overdue to fade from the modern world.
		The broad use of the phrase "gun culture" is the really offensive holdover - from the days of an omnipresent liberally biased press, from which I have looked to The Washington Times for escape.
	www.calnra.com /caspecial/mg030111.shtml (287 words)

	Gun culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gun culture is one shared by people on one of two sides in the gun politics debate, generally those who advocate preserving gun rights and who are against more gun control.
		Gun rights associated with hunting and other outdoor sportsmen activities are widely supported in principle, although these activities are not always practiced by all within the gun culture.
		Gun politics in Australia consists of just the two sides of gun control versus the gun rights of sportsmen, with no inclusion on the gun rights side of self-defence rights as in America, as there is no 2nd Amendment equivalent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gun_culture (634 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : Ibori on youths' gun culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He condemned the new wave of gun-culture when he said that the present attitude by youths to institutionalise a new gun culture of might is right in the society is purely unwarranted.
		He said, “this is why the present attempts by our youths to create a new gun culture of might is right in our society is totally unacceptable.” This is hitting the nail on the head especially coming from the chief executive of a state government.
		The proliferation of guns in the Niger Delta was one aspect which ignited and kept the Warri crises on and on for a long time.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp317032006.html (993 words)

	'GUN CULTURE' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Gun culture" may make sense insofar as it describes the small number of people who actually organize their financial, recreational and social lives around firearms.
		The phrase "gun culture," used to describe all gun owners, first came into use among gun control advocates who liked the pejorative spin that could be put on the term - the implication that firearms use is an irrational and outmoded holdover from the past, a tradition overdue to fade from the modern world.
		The broad use of the phrase "gun culture" is the really offensive holdover - from the days of an omnipresent liberally biased press, from which I have looked to The Washington Times for escape.
	www.nramemberscouncils.com /caspecial/mg030111.shtml (287 words)

	The Radicalization of America's Gun Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Members of the great American gun culture who actively enjoyed their sport and celebrated their firearms heritage were once considered the backbone of America, both for their militarily valuable shooting skills and for their patriotism.
		Frustration has been building in the gun culture for thirty years and has been accelerating with the faster pace of anti-gun attacks and the dramatic improvement in communications.
		Gun owners know the major players in the anti-gun lobby as well as they know the villains in their favorite movies.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/brown/091500.htm (815 words)

	GUNS IN AMERICA:Americans want firearms and federal restrictions
		Overwhelming majorities think gun companies should be required to put safety devices such as trigger locks on their weapons to makes sure they can't be fired by anyone but the owner.
		Southerners are also more likely to keep guns in several locations (in their cars, for instance, at work or even carried with them) in addition to having them at home.
		Even though a large majority of the people think gun ownership should be a constitutional right and almost half have owned guns at some time, almost two out of every three Americans think their society as a whole views gun owners in a negative way.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/nation/guns/part1/gunside2.html (1640 words)

	Empty-Barrel Gun Policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Most gun owners do not want to imitate Clinton's New York utopia, where it is nearly impossible to obtain a permit to carry a handgun for lawful protection because the state law delegates nearly limitless discretion to local bureaucrats.
		According to the December 31, 2000 edition of the Guardian Unlimited, "gun crime in Britain is soaring to record levels: executions, woundings and related incidents in the past year are set to be the highest ever….
		Gun crime is going up, so the government responds by making another list of law-abiding gun owners.
	www.davekopel.com /NRO/2001/Empty-Barrel-Gun-Politics.htm (1823 words)

	Phillip Knightley.com - Articles, Gun culture
		And there we have the essential difference between a nation like the United States, where a gun culture is deeply embedded in the national psyche, and Australia where it is not, and where--if we are careful--it never will be.
		This produced a society that is basically anti-social where to own and carry a gun is commonplace, where children are taught by parents how to use firearms and, as recent school massacres show, have no hesitation in using them against fellow pupils.
		Yet surely the excitement of firing a gun is behind the government move to allow teenage cadets to be taught how to use a weapon.
	www.phillipknightley.com /articles/australia/gun-culture.html (699 words)

	Commentary on This Week's News > The Appalling Gun Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Guns purchased by law-abiding citizens for 'protection' are increasingly ending up in the backpacks of schoolchildren, the pockets of drug dealers, robbers, gang members or professional thugs.
		Health concerns are also increasing because of the relationship gun of violence to illegal drug, alcohol and tobacco crimes and turf wars.
		They require guns to be registered and restrict them mostly to policemen, members of gun clubs or gun collectors and those in specifically approved occupations.
	www.ucg.org /commentary/gun.htm (806 words)

	GUNS IN AMERICA:African-Americans more likely to back gun control
		Smith said researchers have found that the gap between fl and white attitudes toward guns shows up even when they take into account the fact that fls are more likely to live in cities (where people generally have less favorable feelings about guns).
		Nearly two-thirds of white gun owners say they had their first weapon by the time they were 20 versus just one-third of fl gun owners.
		More than half of whites were given their first gun by a parent or other relative, but one-fifth of fls got their first firearm that way.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/nation/guns/part1/gunside3.html (689 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Analysis: America's gun culture
		The gun lobby has plucked out the phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" and used it ever since to beat down every serious attempt at gun control in America by claiming a violation of the constitution.
		Such is the power of the gun lobby, and most notably the National Rifle Association, that even the mildest gun legislation, a requirement that all new guns should be fitted with gun locks, got bogged down in Congress.
		The gun the little boy used had been stolen and criminals do not tend to be too interested in keeping the locks on their guns.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/world/americas/725614.stm (560 words)

	UK to tackle rise in gun culture - theage.com.au
		A "gun summit" to deal with the alarming 35 per cent rise in gun crime in Britain over the past 12 months will launch a sustained government campaign to tackle the nation's growing gun culture.
		The gun crime figures overshadowed a more optimistic general picture which shows that the overall crime rate in England and Wales has stabilised after falling for the past five years.
		The survey shows that guns are now used in 70 per cent of all robberies and has helped to drive the murder rate up to 858, the highest in more than 50 years.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/10/1041990097144.html (471 words)

	Their aim is true: Taking stock of America's gun culture Reason - Find Articles
		Cowboy shooters have to load their guns and fire at metal targets while sitting on a rocking mechanical pony, the kind that used to be in front of supermarkets in the '70s.
		There was a time when I would not have wanted to touch a gun of any kind, much less spend part of an afternoon riding the back of a rocking mechanical pony and blazing away at a series of targets with revolvers, rifles, and shotguns.
		These people are usually ignored by most media accounts of America's "gun culture." What follows is the story of how I came to make that discovery, and some brief sketches of the sorts of people who make up America's much-maligned and misunderstood gun culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_1_33/ai_81827986 (1047 words)

	Arming America: when did we become a gun culture? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It's macabre, but in the cases where a gun was used, it was used as a club, to beat someone to death.
		It was a stroke of genius on his part to commission artist George Catlin to draw pictures of himself hunting buffalo with Colt.45s, of Catlin showing an amazed group of Mandan Indians a Colt.45, of stagecoaches being robbed and the criminals being shot dead by the heroic owner of a Colt.45.
		The Wild West shows cemented the gun culture, and they reinforced the notion that firearms were heroic and attractive.
	www.guncite.com /gun_control_bellesiles_plby.html (3668 words)

	The Gold Standard of Gun Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She pays particular attention to changes in the culture of self-defense, both from the viewpoint of the Crown and of the subjects, and to how crime victims are treated by the government.
		While tightening the screws on law-abiding gun owners, the British authorities were declaring their determination to prevent the existence of an American-style “gun culture.” In that regard, the British government has been very successful.
		Those parents who do not own guns are unlikely to socialize their children in that manner.” Simply put, the Rochester youths who were given lethal weapons by their parents, and who were instructed in how to use those weapons by their parents (usually, by the father), behaved more responsibly than did their peers.
	www.davekopel.com /2A/Foreign/The-Gold-Standard-of-Gun-Control.htm (3681 words)

	Lectures analyze America’s gun culture
		Nationally recognized experts are examining key issues on gun crime, a widespread and growing problem, in a three-part lecture and discussion series, titled “Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America,” at the University’s Law School.
		He discovered that the juveniles had a rich symbolic language of guns, ranging from the commodification and disgust of guns to deep sensual and emotional attractions to handguns.
		“We need to understand how they talk about guns, what guns mean to them, what are the symbolic dimensions of guns for them, and why so many young people are fascinated by guns.” He explained that youths are silenced in the debate simply because of their age.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /031106/guns.shtml (712 words)

	Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. - Review - book review Christian Century - Find Articles
		He argues that "gun ownership was exceptional in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, even on the frontier, and that guns became a common commodity only with the industrialization of the mid-nineteenth century" and the militarization of America during the Civil War.
		Guns had a range of eight to ten yards, whereas a bow could fire its shafts 200 or 300 yards.
		One searches in vain through the colonial period for evidence of Americans armed with guns rising in great numbers to defend their liberties, whether in organized militias or unorganized crowds." Because the militias were so averse to fighting, British officials relied primarily on Indian allies to fight hostile tribes for them.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_10_118/ai_72960532 (868 words)

	Gun Guys » Toy Guns Show a Real Gun Culture
		Well yesterday we kind of scoffed at Bloomberg’s rules about gun paint (he claims it’s no laughing matter, but we’d rather worry about real guns on the street the paint that makes them look fake), but today we see this, in the Edwardsville, IL Intelligencer.
		Sure, these Airsoft guns aren’t really a big concern (although the article says they can hurt young children at close range), but the fact that the cops have to warn kids that their toy guns are being mistake for real ones says a lot about how big the gun violence problem is in America today.
		All toy guns are supposed to be marked with orange paint around the tip so that others, such as police officers, will be able to immediately determine if the weapon is a pellet gun or a toy.
	www.gunguys.com /?p=1171 (838 words)

	USATODAY.com - British fear rise of 'gun culture' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And gun-related crime and the growing use of firearms as "fashion accessories" by young hooligans have many afraid that this country could be developing what they call an American-style gun culture.
		Tourists and residents are mostly unaffected, and the notion that gunplay could become a common part of the culture is largely dismissed.
		Franklin says guns are becoming a kind of "fashion accessory" for teenagers — symbols of power and being "in." The Sunday Times reported last week that drug gangs were recruiting teenage boys to carry out contract killings and that the youths might be responsible for many recent shootings in London clubs.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/08/07/guns-usat.htm (1040 words)

	Gun Culture
		A culture where guns are recognised as tools, respected but not feared.
		John believes that the prejudice against guns, what one might call an anti-gun culture, can only be tackled by the growth of the shooting sports.
		John argues that the UK is not prepared for guns as a self defence tool.
	www.gunculture.net /index.php/weblog/2005/01 (3435 words)

	Hip-hop journalists investigate gun culture in a new book - CBC Arts \| Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The gun shoots louder than a bomb, and comes in a variety of custom finishes.
		The first guns were maybe 800 years ago in China, 700 years in Europe,” says Pearce, 31, on the phone from Vancouver, where he studies law.
		When you turn to a gun, you’re using a tool to destroy somebody instead of trying to come to an understanding,” he says.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/trigger_happy.html (2092 words)

	Humanizing Gun Nuts
		From “public health” articles proposing gun control as a cure for the “epidemic” of gun violence to highly regarded sociologists who argue that gun research should be informed by “moral principles” rather than hard facts, she confesses her surprise at the ill-informed and often tendentious research conducted by academics.
		Shooters and gun scholars alike note that this solution is promoted by white middle-class gun critics for whom violence is not a daily reality and for whom the police are polite and responsive rather than menacing.
		On the other side, she argues that gun enthusiasts must give up the belief that gun control has no effect on crime, citing laws that prohibit felons from owning firearms as an example of effective gun control.
	www.webcom.com /gun_guy/humanizing.htm (1347 words)

	Gun Culture
		There’s no getting away from the fact that gun clubs up and down the land have a far higher safety record than these ‘professionals’.
		The only difficulty was that I had to remove a little bit of stock where the sear adjusting lock nut lives but this was straight forward once I’d worked out this was why the trigger didn’t work with the stock in place.
		Speaking of the stock, this is the only part of the gun I’m not so keen on - it being wood.
	www.gunculture.net (3116 words)

	BlameBush!: Gun Culture
		It’s an idea that may anger gun nut groups like the NRA who enjoy watching our children suffer, and they’ll use every resource at their disposal to prevent us from keeping our little ones from harm.
		But Democrats are resolved to fight on, so that our children can grow up healthy and have children of their own, in the hopes that future generations of progressive leaders will have someone to protect.
		It was a lesson she learned the hard way when her husband was gunned down by Chuck Heston in 1981.
	blamebush.typepad.com /blamebush/gun_culture/index.html (980 words)

	PSR-LA: Gun Violence
		Children by age 2 are strong enough to pull the trigger of a gun, and by age 9 are still unable to determine a real gun from a toy gun.
		However, with an increased likelihood of a gun being involved in the fight, a person is five times more likely to die as a result of the fight in the United States than in Australia.
		More than half of all gun deaths in the United States are the result of a suicide (58%), followed by homicide (38%), and unintentional deaths (3%).1 It surprises many to find that a firearm is more likely to be used to commit a suicide than a homicide.
	www.psrla.org /program_gun_violence.htm (1149 words)

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