“…Americans’ attachment to guns is not explained entirely by regional, religious, or political cultures. Instead, we demonstrate that white men in economic distress find comfort in guns as a means to reestablish a sense of individual power and moral certitude. Gun empowerment, in turn, affects opinions about gun action and policy.” – F. Carson Mencken and Paul Froese in Gun Addiction: White Men Emotionally Attached To Firearms, Study Says [via ibtimes.com]
Evidence, please.
The Klan was America’s first gun control organization. Take that as you will, lUberals.
That’s a racist conclusion!
Sexist too.
“Gun empowerment, in turn, affects opinions about gun action and policy.”
Empowered people, self owners, responsible for themselves and their families, have definite opinions about gun (and every other) policy. As it must be. And no, we’re not in the least interested in becoming powerless over our own lives because other people want to disarm us and control us to their own satisfaction.
The desire/compulsion to control other people is the ROOT of all evil. The controllers can’t see or understand anything but their own desires and compulsions, of course.
Says the angry white male….. oh wait… lol
Shooting is an expensive hobby, with three kids and a mortgage, I didn’t get into guns at all until my income and my wife’s income got to a level that there was a comfortable disposable income to support it. So I’m calling BS. This is just playing on stereotypes.
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It’s ok to be a white man. I apologize to no one for being a white man or a gun owner. I give or take absolutely zero consideration to others based upon their race or gender. I have only enough time to consider the actions and contributions a person makes to society. If I subsequently develop an interest in someone’s background based upon their merit, I will do so. If that offends lefty communists, so be it.
Obviously these two have no hobbies and have no clue what it takes to support any hobby these days…. Guns, cars, model railroads, etc. prices are nuts! For example to get a new Lionel ready to run set (like what you put around a Christmas tree or start your model railroad table with) you *pay more than the price of the following guns:
1. Heritage Rough Rider
2. Savage Rascal
3. Ruger 10/22
4. Ruger American Rifle (centerfire)
5. Mossberg 500
* NOTE: PRICE USED WAS $389-465 FOR A NICE PLUG IN SET. BATTERY SETS DO COST LESS BUT IF YOU ARE A MODEL RAILROADER BATTERIES JUST DON’T CUT IT.
Diving as a hobby goes in your group of expensive hobbies too.
I was a very active recreational diver for 10 years. Good gear costs!
Underwater Camera housings and strobes are crazy expensive.
I never had been fancy with slings, using a simple two point in the .mil and an overly elaborate single point one for PD (neither one I really had a say in). I had always thought a sling was a sling until I spent 25 bucks on a promag one. Holy crap it was terrible. Uncomfortable, difficult to adjust, it just felt cheap. It went back and I spent a little extra and got something that would last.
so what they are really trying to say is, a white guy is powerless without arms? if that’s the case, step up one by one, I’d rather beat them with my bare hand anyway. my guns are to protect my wife and kids, I’d just assume actually being violent and make puddles of faces with brute force, and keep hoping I never have to use my weapon.
As retirees, my wife and I are very much the opposite of “economically distressed”. We have a guaranteed income more than enough to cover our necessary expenses and as much again, from 30 years of saving and investing, to pay for hobbies, vacations, etc. With the exception of something cheap for home defense, our guns fall into the latter category.
Because of our age, stature and declining strength, you might say we are “physically distressed.” Guns give us the power to defend ourselves against thugs who are younger, bigger and stronger.
I wish people would get off this racial pride nonsense. It’s just genetic accident, not something they accomplished. It makes no more sense than being proud because it’s sunny today or ashamed because it was cloudy yesterday.
As a black guy, I gotta tell you I feel entirely left out of all these studies and surveys decrying white male gun owners and their clinginess to guns. What about me and my clinginess. I can cling with the best of ’em! *Scurries off to go hug his LWRCs*
Here are the categories used for determination. So, in a non binary category like race, they ONLY wanted to look at white folk. Others need not apply.
White, Female, Age, Education, Income, Rural community, Children in HH, , Never Married, Divorced , Widowed, Economic precarity, Alienation index, Liberal political views, Trust, Worship attendance, How religious, Threatened w/gun, How happy
If England wants someone to take those terrifying death machines off their hands I’ll take em and lock em up in a really safe place here in America so the guns can no longer hurt the poor UK subjects.
This is a 3 year old “study.” At the bottom of the original article on the Oxford Academic “Social Problems” web site, it says, “This article was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Indianapolis, Indiana.” However, it was not published until Nov 20, 2017.
In their conclusion, they say, “Previous research on the symbolic empowerment guns provide has focused on two scenarios. One, is closely linked to the model of the “hero.” Weakened or inept social institutions require individuals to accept personal responsibility for the protection of themselves and their communities. A second explanation emerges from the “insurrectionists” argument. Guns empower people to confront a tyrannical government (Berlet and Lyons 2000; Celinska 2007; Horwitz and Anderson 2009; Jiobou and Curry 2001). We find a third explanation—guns provide moral purpose to white males who have lost, or fear losing, their economic footing.”
They blame “Weakened or inept social institutions” for people’s acceptance of personal responsibility for the protection of themselves and their communities, and in their citations for the conclusion regarding a tyrannical government, they fail to cite the US Constitution.
I would expect a much larger reduction if we would train and arm the potential victims.
But how can 1500 people be interviewed when only the five richest kings own all of the guns?
So maybe the guy lent the gun to a friend…right?
One also might reflect that the personal empowerment one derives from a gun also leads to personal responsibility. E.G. a gun owner is saying I take primary responsibility for my safety (and my families) vs I will rely solely on the government agencies.
The “Trophy Hunting leads to extinction” argument is a totally absurd fantasy that is easily disproved. Only the gun fearing globalists who published that garbage will never consider common sense or actual science that refutes their pet assumption.
Consider those “male animals with large secondary sexual traits.” How many of those animals have “large secondary sexual traits” from their earliest adulthood? That’s right – NONE! Whether it is a bull moose, a Buck Whitetail, An African loin, or any other treasured trophy animal; it is NOT a trophy until it has years of maturity and hundreds of opportunities to sire offspring. Taking a mature animal does NOT end or significantly reduce that animal’s contribution to the gene pool!
The idiots who offered the stupid story didn’t bother to mention game management. In the USA the deer population was under half a million in the middle of the last century, before hunters stepped up and real modern game management changed the future. Now, almost 50,000,000 deer roam the US and hunters face almost unrestricted opportunities to harvest venison. In Africa, a very significant portion of the money needed, to protect wild game from domestic poaching and thoughtless slaughter, comes from trophy hunters who pay very high rates for the opportunity. And again, they are taking mature animals, who have already contributed to the gene pool.
“the study finds that states that extend this ban to people convicted of any violent misdemeanor experience 23 percent fewer intimate partner homicides.”
Yes, imagine the benefits if we categorically deny all constitutional rights to everyone though. On the street after dark? Papers please. It’s fine, the State will keep you safe.
“White Men Derive Power and Moral Certitude From Guns: Quote of the Day”
Oh, and what do blacks “derive”, or any other race for that mater???
Just another d-bag racist liberal…
I don’t feel like a man without my gun.
There may be some white men pushed out of their middle class lifestyle who are forced economically to live in an area that is perceived to be not as safe an area who have taken a new look at firearms for protection, but just as many minority men living in the same area should also look to firearms as protection. I would think that criminals derive power from their firearms and might like it, so we good guys should be able to protect ourselves from them.
There is a big responsibility to owning firearms and we all hope and pray that new owners study and practice firearm safety. I inquired about gun safety classes at our local police station, and they will not offer any classes, so I asked at the local range and was given about 15 minutes of hands-on instruction about 10 years ago.
I did not derive power or moral certitude from guns – the responsibility is the only reason I can see for not having firearms, but that comes with owning a car, a house, a pool, land, etc.
Liberal BS at it’s finest! As if anything the liberals do is fine!
You’re all missing an important point – read their results. The authors said that they found NO statistical significance to laws prohibiting potentially abusive SPOUSES from having guns. They apparently only reached a statistically significant level when the laws included ex-parte and non-spouse (ie boyfriends) partners. Thus, their study found that the existing laws banning guns from those who were convicted of spousal abuse or domestic violence were probably INEFFECTIVE. They could REALLY have improved the statistical significance if they had any states that banned gun possession by any males.
Not everyone lives in a rural area with a large property to shoot on like that, or a big outdoor range near by that lets you run around inside the firing line. Unless you own a big property in a rural area, i dont see how anyone could realistically train like this on their own.
Exactly. Most of us are ONLY going to be able to train standing in one spot against paper targets. And unfortunately most ranges won’t let you fire from the draw, either.
I’d sign petition, good idea, let’s get to work on it.
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What’s the problem? Justice has been served. He will remain in the sanctuary city of San Fransisco and continue what he has been doing. The people of San Fransisco welcome him and his deeds. Let them enjoy more of it. I salute them!
What can you expect from a Sanctuary City full of degenerates; where is the Federal Government for those of us who believe in the Laws of the United States and served for it and the Constitution? This state is aiding and abetting illegals and letting them vote for laws that effect citizens of the United States without regard for the impact of such a travesty of imposition of a non citizens wants and wills being imposed on legal citizens.
My mom bought an XD just before they sold out. Grip safety bites her and the mod 2’s grip adjustments don’t look like they’ll do a damn thing to fix it.
Speaking of which, any grip sleeves with a beaver tail that work for the XD-S worth checking out?