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I mean... I get it. But in a country where mass shootings are the norm, calling your son gunner is... a bit out of touch?
Baylor on the other hand is just plain horrible.
Yeah, 'a bit out of touch' is a good starting point when talking about conservatives usually...
I mean, a gunner is a job in the military. Not much different than naming your kid Gunars, which means warrior. Gunman would be more on the nose. I'm just saying, when I hear Gunner's mom yelling at him not to spill his soda in the car in the grocery store parking lot in 15 years, I'll be like, "yep, that's a normal name."
Also, mass shootings arent the norm. They are extremely rare.
But yes, naming your kid "gun" to "own the libs" is indeed cringe as fuck.
Naming your kid after a job is cringe.
agreed
hey, Baylor is a good hard-working children's name
those hay bales won't make themselves once all the farm hands are in concentration camps
It's a cultural thing. In some red areas guns are seen as a cultural signifier. It's straight up the same as naming a kid Christian or after a virtue or any other name that's on the nose religious, but with rural cultural values instead of just Christian ones.