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Originally Posted by peragro
I've got no issue with gun ownership, I have a few of my own. Mostly old WWII or before.
I wonder though, when did the term cowboy become derogative. I know that our famously witty cousins in Europe have used the term derogatorily for a while, but consider the source. I was always under the impression, growing up, that cowboys were hard-working, innovative, creative, get-it-done kinda folk.
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Sophisticated people are contemptuous of 'cowboys'--people who are self-reliant and who look at life and work in simple terms like right/wrong, good/evil, friend/enemy. Sophisticated people see a vast volume of lumpy grays in a twilight world where honor and duty are virtues for children and weak-minded adults. Sophisticated people believe that since they see a complex, hard to understand word and cowboys see things in terms of good and evil, that cowboys must be simple-minded and naive. Worse, cowboys are dangerous because they think that wrong things should be destroyed and bad people, punished. Thus, the contempt for cowboys.