Washington Post's Max Boot claims 'GOP gun cult' is the 'sickness in U.S. culture'

Washington Post columnist Max Boot penned a column shaming the Republican Party for promoting gun sales, claiming they're the source of a "sickness" in America.

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Boot began with his lament that America is "a country with more guns than people — and where many teenagers can purchase a military-style assault weapon before they can legally buy a drink."

He blamed that stark reality on Republicans seeing nothing wrong with the number of guns in the country. Boot wrote, "Yet, as if denying that heavy rain causes flooding, Republicans continue to insist that the prevalence of guns has nothing do with the prevalence of shootings."