“One NRA member I interviewed said something along the lines of, ‘Whenever I get pissed off at the government I go out and buy a gun.’,” sociologist Scott Meltzer told Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitprop providers at The Trace. “That’s his symbolic middle finger to the government that you can’t control me, I’m an independent citizen. My weapon is a symbol of freedom, it’s not just a tool.” True story? Do you view guns that way, too?