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Scientific American: Gun Owners Are Scared Racist Losers
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:09 am
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:09 am
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The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.
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. They tend to be less educated.
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A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that racial resentment among whites fueled opposition to gun control. This drives political affiliations: A 2017 study in the Social Studies Quarterly found that gun owners had become 50 percent more likely to vote Republican since 1972—and that gun culture had become strongly associated with explicit racism.
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“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,” says Froese. “Those with high attachment felt that having a gun made them a better and more respected member of their communities.”
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Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:10 am to austintigerdad
Are the black people who are killing everybody with their guns racist?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:10 am to austintigerdad
The 2nd Amendment knows no race.
The first gun control laws were racially motivated and designed to keep blacks from exercising their second amendment rights.
The NRA is America's oldest civil rights organization. Older than the ACLU older than the NAACP. The NRA actively defends the rights of blacks to own firearms and in no way restricts its membership to whites only.
The first gun control laws were racially motivated and designed to keep blacks from exercising their second amendment rights.
The NRA is America's oldest civil rights organization. Older than the ACLU older than the NAACP. The NRA actively defends the rights of blacks to own firearms and in no way restricts its membership to whites only.
This post was edited on 3/14/18 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:11 am to austintigerdad
This article sounds like I troll I would read on the PB.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:11 am to austintigerdad
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The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male
Should read, The American citizen most likely to own a legal gun is a white male.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:12 am to Codythetiger
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Are the black people who are killing everybody with their guns racist?
Judging off of personal anecdotal experience?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:12 am to austintigerdad
What is it about being liberal that makes people troll incessantly and post dumb shite?
This post was edited on 3/14/18 at 11:13 am
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:13 am to austintigerdad
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This post was edited on 5/27/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:14 am to The Pirate King
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What is it about being liberal that makes people troll incessantly and post dumb shite?
Really? Only liberals post dumb shite on here? Come on man.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:14 am to austintigerdad
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Scientific American
This report is neither Scientific nor American.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:15 am to austintigerdad
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A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago
I sure do wish all those insecure white people in Chicago would stop killing each other with illegal guns.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:15 am to austintigerdad
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A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Checks out.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:15 am to The Pirate King
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This post was edited on 5/27/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:16 am to austintigerdad
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The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male
Yet young black males -per capita- commit the most homicides with firearms, and it's by an incredibly wide margin.
So were they counting only firearms purchased legally?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:17 am to austintigerdad
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racial resentment among whites fueled opposition to gun control
What does one thing have to do with the other? I have never once heard it argued by a white supremacist, or anyone for that matter that certain races shouldn't have guns.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:17 am to austintigerdad
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A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago
So. Much. Irony.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:18 am to austintigerdad
I am not a white male.
My job security is ironclad.
My only racial fear is that my Spanish language skills are slipping.
I hold several more degrees than the author of that article.
I am a gun owner.
Carry on.
My job security is ironclad.
My only racial fear is that my Spanish language skills are slipping.
I hold several more degrees than the author of that article.
I am a gun owner.
Carry on.
This post was edited on 3/14/18 at 11:20 am
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:18 am to DelU249
Looks like they are trying as many ways as possible to keep the lower class blacks brainwashed. Uh, don't vote for anything but democrats because everyone else is racist.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:18 am to austintigerdad
Oh look a compassionate progressive calling people “who have experienced economic setbacks or worry about their economic futures” losers.
Having economic troubles only makes you a loser if you’re white, according to the enlightened set.
Also, these same losers are wrong to have “racial fears”.
Makes total sense, right? Not inconsistent at aIl.
Having economic troubles only makes you a loser if you’re white, according to the enlightened set.
Also, these same losers are wrong to have “racial fears”.
Makes total sense, right? Not inconsistent at aIl.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 11:19 am to austintigerdad
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says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.
OK. So I'm not only going to laugh at the source but really, you might as well get Marlboro to study cigarettes.
So, on to the specific humor. First, from Ms. Stroud. She based her "study" on her own interviews and her interpretation of the responses she got. Do I need to help liberals with why this is a horrible way to do science?
They go on to tell us her "insight" is "backed up by many". OK.
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A 2013 paper by a team of United Kingdom researchers found that a one-point jump in the scale they used to measure racism increased the odds of owning a gun by 50 percent
Um. LOL. OK guys. I'm 0 for 2 at bumping into something you could really call "science" in this article. Maybe things will get better. LOL
Then, we get ANOTHER self adjudicated study.
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Steven Shepherd and Aaron C. Kay asked hundreds of liberals and conservatives to imagine holding a handgun—and found that conservatives felt less risk and greater personal control than liberal counterparts.
For frick's sake. Do they teach sociologists how to do real science these days?
Maybe next one?
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Baylor University sociologists Paul Froese and F. Carson Mencken created a “gun empowerment scale” designed to measure how a nationally representative sample of almost 600 owners felt about their weapons. Their study found that people at the highest level of their scale—the ones who felt most emotionally and morally attached to their guns—were 78 percent white and 65 percent male.
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“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,” says Froese. “Those with high attachment felt that having a gun made them a better and more respected member of their communities.”
And this my friends is why anytime you hear a Sociologist tell you they practice "science" you should merely laugh in their face and move on.
Their scale
Their interpretation of interviews
etc etc
Did ANY of these fricks ever hear of observer bias?
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