First off, I like the band. They're one of my favorites. Obviously the old line-up, first albums until they died, not the post-crash bullcrap masquerading as them.
But something that's always struck me is how, unless I missed ever hearing it be talked about, the song Saturday Night Special wasn't considered a sticking point with their fans.
Modern country bands wouldn't dare write a song that's vaguely anti-second amendment.
Yet this song, which is from a Southern 70s band, literally has the lyric in it
"Hand guns are made for killin' They ain't no good for nothin' else....
So why don't we dump 'em, people To the bottom of the sea"
It's the "no one needs an AR-15" of the 70s.
Yeah a lot of murders happened with "Saturday Night Specials" and other handguns and revolvers, but also many lives were saved in self defense or otherwise with those very same guns.
Just pretty crazy that in the 1970s a band that would have a confederate flag on stage, would sing this to adoring crowds and it wasn't a big fuss. Maybe it was, and we're just not privy to it anymore. Someone who was alive back then' perspective would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, but the real question is why are all the boomers hippies. Do you really think it was natural? Not a chance.
Embrace your awakening OP. I know the feeling. I have a large paid collection of digital movies that I now view as nothing more than Hollywood propaganda. Subversive trash.
I swear the lead poisoning from leaded gasoline meme has a significant contribution. Kids born in the 40s-60s were exposed to so much more lead poisoning in their formative years than any other time in history. They even had studies at the time that showed behavioral changes, it just got suppresses.
Boomers were not just propagandized, they were chemically retarded too.