Are you familiar with Joe Bageant’s work? “Deer Hunting With Jesus” etc, is mostly about just these things. Democrats have abandoned the working poor in favor of Wall Street donors and the Professional Management Class, which ends up being a washout between wives and husbands, then the Republicans win on guns and church ladies. As your gun store article said, the gun culture isn’t going away soon. Democrats need to stop poking it with a stick and move on to UBI, health (not insurance), and real sensible cooperative leadership in real time.