In retrospect, allowing the NRA to screw with social memes was probably a really profoundly foolish idea. Naturally, the more firearms that you distribute into society, the more firearms mishaps and so forth you would expect as a statistically-inevitable function of the volume of the weapons in circulation.

The issue is not solely associated with the firearms themselves, 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.