just for context, at the time it was written "a well regulated militia" meant all men old enough to fight that had their wits about them, regardless of their belonging to any organization including the military
I interpret is as 'people buy guns'...that's it. The heck does 'the right' have to do with it. And why narrow it down to the alphabet soup. It's just people...people bought guns. People go to the gun range. Gah I'm so sick of everything being these little fuck groups of individuals. We're all human, stop micro labelling groups if you want unity. So sick of it all. Left, right, LGBTIQW, blacks, whites, boomers, genz..it's all sickening.
The title is denoting that there was a rise in gun ownership among people who are not straight. What it has to do with the right is that gun ownership has always been a very common thing among that group, whereas it has not been common among the left and people who are not straight. It is pointing out a change in the status quo by juxtaposing the groups historical interests.
They didn't use "People buy guns" as the title because that title doesn't tell you the objective point of what the article is about and could mean too many other things.
I agree that in a perfect world where humanity is unified, we wouldn't need such labels and could just use "people" for stuff like this, but it isn't the world we live in right now unfortunately and the context is important to this specific articles content. When it's possible to not use labels though, I agree, we shouldn't.
Plenty of Democrats own guns, and way more liberals own guns. The ONLY reason gun ownership is so much more prevalent among Republicans than Democrats is that the Democratic party, and by extension many true believers, has been openly hostile to them for 4 decades now and taking every opportunity to disarm people.
I understand why they used such specific terminology...to sell the article. It just bothers me that in this day and age someone who isn't straight even needs to be classified as something other then a citizen, or a neighbour or what have you..
I'm just frustrated with everything in this world.
I agree. Fuck the label people. They put a label on you to instruct others how to behave towards you. It's metaphorically a handle. Nobody needs labels and they're never used without ill intent.