Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?

[Mindmaster]

Oh well......... the OP asked for our rants.

But your idea of a 'real man' looks more like a dumbo to me, because if or when the US laws change about guns, if he doesn't comply then he's no longer a 'real man protecting his loved ones', he would just be a criminal. True?

If you have to become a criminal to be free, it's the government that's whacked not you. At least, in the USA the government derives its power from the people not the other way around. In this type of situation, the government would be out of bounds so the deal is null and void. The constitution has all sorts of fail-safes like this.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

If you have to become a criminal to be free, it's the government that's whacked not you. At least, in the USA the government derives its power from the people not the other way around. In this type of situation, the government would be out of bounds so the deal is null and void. The constitution has all sorts of fail-safes like this.

Where does the Constitution say anything to the effect "the government would be out of bounds so the deal is null and void"?

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Shocking my simple questions are going unanswered.

 

[ChristineM]

An admirable trait in their culture.

So it seems

 

[ChristineM]

Yes, we all buy our firearms because our masculinity is toxic and the firearms are an expression our penises.

I guess that's why they are so popular with women too, it must be penis envy.

Well, when you don't have the real thing substitutes may be required

 

[Shaul]

The two statistics are independent of each other. No where in the article suggested a reason for the inverse correlation of male decline to female incline. There is no correlation between the two.

Actually no. They are related although the precise correlation is not identified. Since women ineluctably don’t buy guns based on their penis size, it follows that there are many reasons other than phallic image issues for gun ownership. That is true for both males and females. Which contradicts the article’s inane postulate.

 

[ChristineM]

It's more honest than ad hominems, or strawmanning me into some archetypal conservative. (I'm not, not even a little bit.)

The liberal motive is ruling through tyranny and divisiveness, nothing more. Whatever flags they fly on issues they support are merely means to that end. The anti-gun thing is specifically because white males have them, and they need to check their privilege or something, lol.

They'll jettison any of their ideas in a hot minute because they were propaganda in the first place.

I replied to the content of your posts, nothing more, nothing less, perhaps you display a trace of paranoia?

And back to the anti liberal hate campaign. Note fewer liberals would be armed in order to force their point.

You evidence for such a claim? Oh you have none, just more hatred and hot air

 

[Shaul]

There is a question which this article inadvertently raises yet to be addressed here. Why do anti-gun advocates fixate on penises? So many of them baselessly proffer that gun owners buy guns based on phallic issues, despite a lack of concrete evidence this is so. Yet they habitually bring up penises. It seems that some of the anti-gun crowd are the real people with penis issues.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

There is a question which this article inadvertently raises yet to be addressed here. Why do anti-gun advocates fixate on penises? So many of them baselessly proffer that gun owners buy guns based on phallic issues, despite a lack of concrete evidence this is so. Yet they habitually bring up penises. It seems that some of the anti-gun crowd are the real people with penis issues.

FWIW, I'm a gun owner, "pro-gun" even, if we must use such terms, but I agree that an awful lot of the reactionary "we need our guns!" rhetoric out there certainly seems distinctly compensatory, although one need not invoke Freud and literal penises to think so.

 

[ChristineM]

There is a question which this article inadvertently raises yet to be addressed here. Why do anti-gun advocates fixate on penises? So many of them baselessly proffer that gun owners buy guns based on phallic issues, despite a lack of concrete evidence this is so. Yet they habitually bring up penises. It seems that some of the anti-gun crowd are the real people with penis issues.

Or big red cars

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh here comes the black on black crime. Sorry criminals shoot criminals. Yes I grew up in the criminal element and not dead. However let's talk about coward white guys with guns who feel masculine with a pistol. I bet if you saw big bubba you want to grip that pistol huh?

Since it affects all of us, it strikes me as very misguided to make the gun violence
issue about white guys being "The Problem". Moreover, black folk appear to be
even more adversely affected.

Btw, a local police chief made the news with his advocacy for armed self defense....
Detroit Police Chief James Craig advocates for arming teachers

 

[Revoltingest]

The penis joke is not needed and the wrong angle to criticize this issue. It wasn't respectful.

However, I don't think we should deny that men are much more statistically proven to commit violent crimes than women. The weapon of choice is arbitrary in the sense of what the environment suffices. In the US, it just happens to be guns. Take that away then it would probably be knives proven from other countries with stronger gun control. Still, men have a more aggressive psychology. We see it in nature in other mammals.

I do honestly think that guns is part of that aggression or empowerment. That's more from circumstantial observation than anything clinically proven.

Agree? No?

Men are a good reason for some women to want to be armed.
I know that this could be decried as sexist, but there really are
gender based personality & behavioral differences.
The important thing is to see people as individuals....some
of us testosterone poisoned galoots are quite peaceful

 

[Revoltingest]

Well, the first time blacks and females were mentioned was in your:

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You're not weaseling out of this with by that "look over there" tactic.

 

[Shaul]

Well, when you don't have the real thing substitutes may be required

Substitute teachers are “real” teachers too.

 

[Revoltingest]

You got that wrong-way-round. @Revoltingest would need five Hail Marys and 12 scotches.

But he needs to say the Hail Marys first, or he'll just keep bursting into song half way through 'em.

I'm not a bursting into song type.
Even among engineers, I'm considered so introverted as to be an embarrassment.
Perhaps in another life I'll be more Kelsey Grammerish.

 

[Shaul]

FWIW, I'm a gun owner, "pro-gun" even, if we must use such terms, but I agree that an awful lot of the reactionary "we need our guns!" rhetoric out there certainly seems distinctly compensatory, although one need not invoke Freud and literal penises to think so.

Gun ownership is a serious topic. Too serious to be handed over to sophomoric penis jokes and trivialization.

 

[ChristineM]

Substitute teachers are “real” teachers too.

Are you saying teachers are phallic symbols?

 

[PureX]

White men are finally realizing that they are neither free nor superior, as they had believed and presumed for so long in America. And now they're just angry and frightened.

 

[Revoltingest]

White men are finally realizing that they are neither free nor superior, as they had believed and presumed for so long in America. And now they're just angry and frightened.

Superior?
I long ago got used to the idea of my own mediocrity....no better'n anyone
else. Perhaps you're just pushing a tired old racial stereotype, & should let
people be individuals.

 

[Shaul]

Substitute teachers are “real” teachers too.

No, just misread your post. Thought someone was talking about teachers. My bad.