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Sociologists Want To Know Why We Carry Guns

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I am curious what you guys think of this one. It seems like the link off it about is ludicrous. Who uses the term scientific consensus for a poll anyways? It like someone had no data to follow up their claim and instead did a poll that was like, scientific proving stuff man.
 
kman said:
I am curious what you guys think of this one. It seems like the link off it about is ludicrous. Who uses the term scientific consensus for a poll anyways? It like someone had no data to follow up their claim and instead did a poll that was like, scientific proving stuff man.
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Consensus is a word the Bolsheviks use to give their collectivist ideas superficial legitimacy. Seeing the words science and consensus in the same sentence is a symptom of the politicization and death of science.

The Bolsheviks hate firearms because they want to suppress the traditional virtues of independence and self-reliance and replace them with dependent obedience to the national security state.

"Few men desire freedom; the greater part are content with just masters".....Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Roman statesman and historian, 86−34 BC
 
kman said:
It's funny you mention it but the guy who sent me the link is right now using the Houston floods as more proof of global warming

He also just posted this picture of open carry people
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This will all be amusing right up to the point that the Bolsheviks start doing what they did before.
 
Btw the way, did you see the part of the poll says 58% of people think having a gun in the house increases the risk of suicides? I mean by that logic then, so does rope and razor blades?
 
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kman said:
Btw the way, did you see the part of the poll says 58% of people think having a gun in the house increases the risk of suicides? I mean by that logic then, so does rope and razor blades?
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And trains increase the risk of suicides. People step in front of trains daily, as an "emergency exit" from life.

Ban trains. Obviously, having them is making people step in front of them. [thinking]
 
Guns in the house = suicide? I looked at this in detail about 6 years ago in response to a British anti that worked with me. He was surprised that the majority of US gun deaths were due to suicide. Then I looked at suicide rates among developed European countries and found they were roughly in line with the US. Actually some were higher. These countries' suicides usually did not involve guns. They might have been via drugs or jumping or using a vehicle. At any rate, I argued that suicides are not increased by the presence of guns and that a gun suicide may be safer for the general public than jumping off a building or driving a car into a bridge abutment where innocents could get hurt.
 
kman said:
Btw the way, did you see the part of the poll says 58% of people think having a gun in the house increases the risk of suicides? I mean by that logic then, so does rope and razor blades?
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Lol, yeah just like listening to Misfits, Ozzy, and Slayer makes anyone who listens to them a mass-murderer or into devil worship. These clowns are the same type of people who in 1492 accused anyone of being a witch.
 
ColdDayInHell said:
Because MYOFB, that's why.
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Unfortunately, this is propaganda that suggests that owning or wanting a gun is a mental illness, which will eventually disqualify one from it.

This kind of "social science" is paving the way to gun bans and confiscation on mental fitness grounds.
 
Squire said:
Unfortunately, this is propaganda that suggests that owning or wanting a gun is a mental illness, which will eventually disqualify one from it.

This kind of "social science" is paving the way to gun bans and confiscation on mental fitness grounds.
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Yeah mental illness but this guy who sent that link to me seems to be saying you are a "loser" if you want to carry. Now what does that make a criminal? Underprivileged victims??
 
The headline alone is moronic: "Why men feel the need to carry guns" implies that women do not, despite the fact that female gun ownership has been growing very rapidly.

Then it just gets worse: "They see carrying a gun as a masculine duty" is another downright idiotic statement. Yes, 120 million gun owners, even female ones, are all about masculinity and insecurity [rolleyes]
 
While skimming the article I ran into an article about why the police shouldn't carry glocks.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-owens-glock-accidents-20150508-story.html

Incompetence isn't the problem, guns that are too easy to shoot are. Cops should be carrying unloaded double action only revolvers with safeties for their safeties, holsters with retention snaps that require a fingerprint reader to unlock.
 
bfm said:
Why do we carry guns?


Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm just waiting for sociologist season to open.

[smile]
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Close enough?

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kman said:
Btw the way, did you see the part of the poll says 58% of people think having a gun in the house increases the risk of suicides? I mean by that logic then, so does rope and razor blades?
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Having a gun in the house increases the risk of successful suicides.
 
jho said:
While skimming the article I ran into an article about why the police shouldn't carry glocks.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-owens-glock-accidents-20150508-story.html

Incompetence isn't the problem, guns that are too easy to shoot are. Cops should be carrying unloaded double action only revolvers with safeties for their safeties, holsters with retention snaps that require a fingerprint reader to unlock.
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What does it say about me that I carry a Walther PPS with one in the chamber and no safety on my safety?
 
StevieP said:
I carry a concealed gun because cops are too heavy.
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StevieP is correct. The Police have no obligation to protect you. The Police will do the best they can, but on a busy night in the summertime you may be without their support for an hour or more depending where you live.
We, as citizens, need to have the tools to protect ourselves. This is the basis of our rights. This has nothing to do with being macho, it is simply having the tools at hand should we need them. The idea that firearm ownership increases suicide seems completely stupid. If you want to "off" yourself, a firearm may be convenient but so is rope, a car or prescription meds. Too many moonbats are demonizing the "the gun" rather than understanding it is simply a tool just like a hammer.
 
I carry because after 15 years of carrying everywhere, it just feels weird without one on my hip. That's the only reason. I don't even like guns.
 
The only reason, I am told, I carry a gun is because of my small penis. Well that settles it I guess, I need to get even bigger guns.
 

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