Study: White men have guns due to feelings of inadequacy and fear of black people

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White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says



Who likes guns and why?

That’s the subject of a new Scientific American article which draws from a number of scientific studies, finding a very specific profile of the average American gun owner. It’s a relatively small group since just three percent of the population owns half of the country’s firearms.

According to science, the average gun owner is a white man without much education who is worried about providing for his family and who is afraid of black people.

“These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears,” Scientific American writes. “They tend to be less educated. For the most part, they don’t appear to be religious—and, suggests one study, faith seems to reduce their attachment to guns. In fact, stockpiling guns seems to be a symptom of a much deeper crisis in meaning and purpose in their lives.”

Among the works cited in the article is a 2017 study by two Baylor sociologists who plotted gun owners on a “gun empowerment scale.” They found that the people who were “most emotionally and morally attached to their guns” were 65 percent male and 78 percent white.

“We found that white men who have experienced economic setbacks or worry about their economic futures are the group of owners most attached to their guns,” one of the Baylor sociologists said. “Those with high attachment felt that having a gun made them a better and more respected member of their communities.”

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The solution is not to mock these men, says Angela Stroud, author of Good Guys with Guns.

“Ridicule of working-class white people is not helpful,” she tells Scientific American

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Their goal was to profile the average gun owner. Maybe they're right, but there's nothing average about your boy Pecker, physically or intellectually. So I find this article amusing.

No word yet on why women have guns, or why so many AFRICAN AMERICANS in the inner-cities have so many guns.