{"id":2439,"date":"2013-10-06T03:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2013-10-06T03:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:10:40","slug":"the-history-of-guns-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/the-history-of-guns-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of guns in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/why-americans-love-guns\/\">http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/why-americans-love-guns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hollywood version of the Wild West had a huge impact,\u201d Bell says. \u201cOne of the most shocking things in the Vietnam War, which was all run by Baby Boomers, is we had an actual Army edict that we wouldn\u2019t fire unless we were fired upon. Well, that came straight out of a diet of Westerns that came out after mothers got upset about all the violence on TV. All of a sudden we get into a war, and they\u2019re saying we can\u2019t fire unless we\u2019re fired upon? That\u2019s straight out of the myth of the Old West, but it never happened in the Old West. It\u2019s a dangerous belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, our frontier roots mean that Americans may never give up the idea that we\u2019re all gun-wielding cowboys who can make it on our own in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther cultures didn\u2019t have the resources of land that the United States did,\u201d Richardson says. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the many things that set apart the American experience from, say, Europe or Asia. Of course, \u2018open land\u2019 is a huge misnomer, as if the land was not in use, as if there were not people here. But still this notion of the availability or the supposed availability of land certainly determined America\u2019s arc. It determined American history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/why-americans-love-guns\/ \u201cThe Hollywood version of the Wild West had a huge impact,\u201d Bell says. \u201cOne of the most shocking things in the Vietnam War, which was all run by Baby Boomers, is we had an actual Army edict that we wouldn\u2019t fire unless we were fired upon. Well, that came straight out of a diet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}