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Gun culture is a culture shared by people in the gun politics debate, generally those who advocate preserving gun rights and who are generally against more gun control. In the United States, the term is used solely to identify gun advocates who are legitimate and legal owners and users of guns, using guns for self defense, sporting uses (hunting), and recreational uses (target shooting). In places where those rights have been lost such as the UK and Australia, gun culture refers to the use of guns by criminals (as they are the ones who remain armed).; Two elements of the modern American gun culture have survived since the earliest days of the country: the hunting/sporting ethos the militia/frontier ethos;The Hunting/Sporting ethos emerged when America was an agrarian nation in which hunting was a valuable source of supplying food for settlers.;The Militia/Frontier ethos emerged from early Americans dependence on their wits and skill to protect themselves from hostile Native Americans and foreign armies. ;Some traits of the pro-gun culture are as follows:;They share a belief that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution enumerates an individual right. ;They share a belief that guns provide some level of protection against criminality and tyranny. This ranges from a feeling that it is good to have a gun around the house for self-protection, to an active distrust of government and a belief that widespread gun ownership is protection against tyranny.;They are generally responsible with respect to firearms handling, providing for some level of safe handling of guns and trying to abide by certain safety rules when handling firearms.;They support, widely and in principle, the gun rights associated with hunting and other outdoor sports activities, although these activities are not always practiced by all within the gun culture. ;November 7, 1991, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) MASSACRES FAIL TO SWAY GUN NUTS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS More mass killings - a colleg