All right, welcome to another episode of T-Rex talk, a podcast exclusive episode, and this one is

actually kind of a strange bit of foreshadowing, because last week, or almost two weeks ago now,

I had a conversation with the Seaburn Art guys and Grand Thumb, and it was part of a podcast

that hasn't been released yet, but the topic of that

podcast was, what does gun culture 3.0 look like? And like many conversations with that

group of people, we didn't stay entirely on topic. It was a wild rambling, many-faceted conversation,

but it got me thinking.

And so even though that conversation has already been recorded and that episode is due

for release sometime after this one is, I've been thinking a little bit about that.

And so first of all, I've been thinking about what gun culture 2.1 and gun culture 2.0 look like and how they came

about and their strengths and their weaknesses and both what I think gun culture 3.0 will look

like based on trends and the way that things are going, but also some things that I would really

love to see in gun culture 3.0. So let's try to define some of these terms, even though

gun culture 1.0, 2.0, these are not, uh, this is a really mushy, mushy thing. This is not

a self-proclaimed thing either. This is in hindsight trying to determine different trends and

lump them all together under labels that are hopefully helpful.

But for a little bit of context, I think it's worth pointing out that America didn't have

any widespread weapon control laws until the late 1800s.

After the Civil War, 1860s and 70s, that's when you start to see gun control bills.

And even those gun control bills were not universally applied. They were very selectively applied, even within the states where they existed.

But nevertheless, that's when you start to see weapon control laws. Prior to that,

everybody has guns. Guns are just tools. You need guns to provide for your family. You

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