https://blogs.scientificameric...n-stockpiling-guns/#

Uneducated, white, racist, blah blah blah

Create the "other".

Made notes of the article and the terms used are:
White
Male
Anxious
Less educated
Not religious
Crisis
Conservative

The "other" they can create by stigmatizing a gun owner as an anxious, not educated, not religious, and suffering from a crisis.

Paints the picture as unstable, unreasonable, not trustworthy etc.

12121 hits it on the head with his assessment - Fucking commies indeed.

Sounds very Scientific.

thats the best laugh I've had all day

Fucking commies. More than likely just managed to insult a good portion of their readership.

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Screw you, Jerry. It's a White Thing, you wouldn't understand. Also, it's a Male thing, you wouldn't understand that either.

I read it and as someone who is a trained scientist I say with complete confidence the author fails to meet any of the key scientific requirements; or as my Dad would say; "what a load of manure".

"What are the solutions? That and many other studies suggest that restricting the flow of guns and ammunition would certainly save lives. But no law can address the absence of meaning and purpose that many white men appear to feel, which they might be able to gain through social connection to people who never expected to have the economic security and social power that white men once enjoyed.

“Ridicule of working-class white people is not helpful,” says Angela Stroud. “We need to push the ‘good guys’ to have a deeper connection to other people. We need to reimagine who we are in relation to each other.”


The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. "

Oh.

Good god, what utter dreck.

Thanks to Al Gore I now know about this extra chromosome I have to cart around so cut me some slack. The pseudoscience is settled.

That wasn’t true for women and non-whites. In other words, they may have suffered setbacks—but women and people of color weren’t turning to guns to make themselves feel better. “This suggests that these owners have other sources of meaning and coping when facing hard times,"

Has he been to places like Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, et al recently?

"insecure about their place in the job market"
Sorry bucko, I retired after 47 years of working, not one day unemployment, did miss work on two occasions for a total of three months due to medical reasons. I'm still getting requests to "stop by, let's talk about you working for me" even though I am working part time.

Again:But Stroud also discovered another motivation: racial anxiety. “A lot of people talked about how important Obama was to get a concealed-carry license
Had mine since George W. was in office. One of the reasons was that it made it a lot easier to transport a handgun to and from the range due to state laws here.

Glad he told me I'm abnormal, thought I was pretty together all this time...

Hmmm, how 'bout that...

quote:

Originally posted by bayouman:
I read it and as someone who is a trained scientist I say with complete confidence the author fails to meet any of the key scientific requirements; or as my Dad would say; "what a load of manure".

Did you not see that there were DEFINITIVE STUDIES you racist goon?

If this were true, insecure and racist white gun owners would be responsible for a rash of minority murders.

quote:

Originally posted by RichardC:
"What are the solutions? That and many other studies suggest that restricting the flow of guns and ammunition would certainly save lives. But no law can address the absence of meaning and purpose that many white men appear to feel, which they might be able to gain through social connection to people who never expected to have the economic security and social power that white men once enjoyed.

“Ridicule of working-class white people is not helpful,” says Angela Stroud. “We need to push the ‘good guys’ to have a deeper connection to other people. We need to reimagine who we are in relation to each other.”
"

Oh.

What are the solutions?
studies "suggest"? translation: I'm making this up.
"restricting the flow" of guns and ammunition... would certainly save lives.
What is this "flow"? You mean the right to legally purchase?
translation: the law abiding gun owner needs to have his guns taken away... for his own good.

and then there's this tripe:
“Ridicule of working-class white people is not helpful,” says Angela Stroud.
Really? Isn't that exactly what you are engaged in?

I think maybe Angela Stroud should be watching Tucker Carlson's discussion of Men in America.

Damn millennial gun owners blowing the bell curve.

What, nobody has said "Well bless his heart" yet?

quote:

Originally posted by pbslinger:
If this were true, insecure and racist white gun owners would be responsible for a rash of minority murders.

Yep. The black bodies being stacked up in Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, and other US shitholes are not a result of Luther, Cleetus, and Bubba cruising the hood bagging their quota of home boys.

I'm going to utilize my abundant supply of "toxic masculinity", and call this article exactly what it is...complete and utter BS.

If someone wants to call me an uneducated, insecure racist it's fine with me. I'll just agree and go on about my day if it makes them feel better about themselves. I'm at the point where I don't care what anybody wants to call me.

quote:

Originally posted by pbslinger:
If this were true, insecure and racist white gun owners would be responsible for a rash of minority murders.

Game, set, and match.