Women's World
Related: About this forumIs the American gun relationship based on testosterone or the 2nd Amend?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Truthfully, I think white wing racism is at the core of gun proliferation in this country. Not every gun owner directly; but if by some miracle, racists quit buying guns, the market would all but dry up. All gun owners who oppose tough regulation are at a minimum contributing to just about every gun death, if only indirectly.
Study. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.542.6856&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)There need to be lines trailing down streets from gun stores -- around blocks. there need to be drone shots on every news outlet. White and Off-White America, even Taupe America will freak out.
Legislators will find it impossible to make assault weapon ownership for just African Americans illegal. Though they may try, a supreme court strike-down would be certain. So, scared white Americans would opt to make all assault weapons sales illegal. The 3% of whites who own 80+% of guns would scream -- at least until they realized the value of the 10 guns they have buried out by the outhouse just quadrupled in value.
And that's how assault weapons become illegal.
Turbineguy
(38,378 posts)I seem to remember a lot of toy commercials about power.
brush
(57,517 posts)They are worshiped and revered.
Irish_Dem
(57,542 posts)A deadly combination.
Violent people love to make excuses for their actions, religion, government, some sort of cause.
Men have ruled the planet for millennia. Perhaps they should take a time out for awhile and chill out. Take some yoga classes and let women run the show for the time being.
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,542 posts)Freelancer
(2,107 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Testosterone has nothing to do with it. PERIOD !
Irish_Dem
(57,542 posts)The killing of animals, people.
Does it go back to man as hunter?
Man as protector against intruders?
Men who could kill things helped the family and tribe survive?
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)Anything that provides us with enjoyment becomes an object of affection. People who love roller coasters are seldom content to only go to the first one they encountered at the county fair. They travel -- sometimes basing their entire vacations on a coaster destination. They seek the biggest, the fastest and, to be sure, the scariest. They may choose lifelong companions based on that pursuit. It's similar, at least from the standpoint of affection, for gun lovers. Fortunately, roller coasters are too big to fit in a pocket and too cumbersome to launch a flesh-rending projectile. Otherwise, people would be using them to rob liquor stores left and right.
dweller
(25,052 posts)it's all about teeny weenie penis size....
SNL skit last Saturday suggested a program that for every gun you turned in, you'd receive 1/2" penile extension...
applies to
men only 😝
BigmanPigman
(52,259 posts)dweller
(25,052 posts)trade bullets for the little blue pills...