"it is the extremity of the gaslighting that manipulates so many into believing that they want ownership and encourages them to subscribe to an artless corporate cult culture. It has been profitable for the NRA's industrial members, but that profit has been borne out of such dear social cost. The fact there'is never a credible accounting for the entities and investment capital behind this all makes it feel like the socially-predatory exploitation that it always was."

Same could be said of any consumer product. You just have an unhealthy fixation on guns.