“Yet a little defiance of government authority is mixed in there as well. ‘The Democratic Party in many ways overinvested in symbolic legislation on gun control, which explains the backlash from hunters or people who have a legitimate reason to feel unsafe and want a gun by their bedside,’ says Sanford Levinson, a University of Texas constitutional law professor and expert on the Second Amendment. ‘But the more important thing is what the Republican Party has done over 25 years, which is to really delegitimize national government and make people feel that the national government is not merely incompetent, but also likely to be antagonistic and maybe even tyrannical.’ ” – Patrik Jonsson at csmonitor.com on America’s gun-carry culture