I was watching some X-men video on YouTube and it occured to me that Superheroes are the embodiment of the good guy with a gun mentality. But leftist seem to love heroes but hate firearms. I did a Google search and plenty of others have made the same connection. Wondering what the board thinks about it?
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The difference being that in a world of superpowers the average man's ability to defend himself is dependent on the whims of fate, mutation, gods, or a disastrous science experiment.
In the world of guns the average man's ability to defend himself is, for now, dependent only on the stock of the local gun store.
One of these is much more likely to be a fair shot than the other.
Yeah there does seem to be a component of classism and elitism to the left's love of heroes. As if the heroes are ubermensch and above the rest of us.
Which again seems to push back aganist a lot of leftist ideology.