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Home Front: Culture Wars
Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?
2018-03-17
[blogs.ScientificAmerican] Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears.
In which the bloggers started with their conclusion, then looked for published studies to support it.

Related: Townhall from January 2016 entitled 'Buy Ammo.'
Posted by:RJ45ACP

#18  Ouch, g(r)omgoru.

No problem, I found another source to cite
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-17 16:27  

#17  I once was told by a reviewer that one cannot use a SciAm article as a source in professional publication

Ouch, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-17 16:06  

#16  Well, I'm not stockpiling, I already have too many (my definition, not the anti-gun folks) But with the MSM suggesting to non-whites that they may be allowed to do what they will with me with no repercussions, well, I guess too much is not enough...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-17 15:26  

#15  Yes. Of course racism....
Couldn't be anything else.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-03-17 15:15  

#14  I once was told by a reviewer that one cannot use a SciAm article as a source in professional publication.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-17 13:51  

#13  I canceled in the early 1980s when a British Lord of the Sky Is Falling persuasion bought Scientific American. He should have replaced American with British and added Pseudo- in front of "Scientific".

Pseudo-Scientific British
Posted by: 3dc   2018-03-17 13:42  

#12  As a teenager I remember going to the stacks and reading the thick older Scientific American issues. Many (most...) of the articles were beyond me but it was fascinating to see science in all its forms...
A decade ago on a newstand I saw the current thin, slick paper version. *Hmmpf* Pop-Sci pablum about crashing black holes and an essay about Global Warming. Tragic.
Posted by: magpie   2018-03-17 12:52  

#11  Off the pile (didn't wanna diss SH in hora ultima, like)...

"Let's pause for a moment of science:
In whom shall we place our reliance?
Who'll fill the black hole
That He's left in our soul,
And never be lenient
With facts inconvenient?
Who'll shepherd nerds' words towards compliance,
And bully deniers to silence?"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-03-17 11:38  

#10  Well, when the Hurricane warnings are issued, people stock up on key provisions. When people see a civil war coming, they just acquire the appropriate materials to carry them over as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-03-17 11:05  

#9  I canceled my subscription to Scientific American long ago. If I want political crap, I can watch ESPN.

Just like child molesters who like to hide wearing the frock, political propagandist can't resist the cover of science.
Posted by: Alistaire Gloluns2996   2018-03-17 10:57  

#8  TOTAL B.S. Unadulterated BOVINE SCRIPTOLOGY
Posted by: ranture   2018-03-17 10:47  

#7  Previously owned Colt Python .357 Magnum. $2900.

"What's in your wallet?"
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-17 09:38  

#6  Amen, Joe. SA was an interesting and informative magazine until it was taken over for SJW activist propaganda and climate change agitprop - about 35 years ago
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-17 08:52  

#5  Good to hear from you, Joe.
Posted by: badanov   2018-03-17 08:49  

#4  This is my rifle

This is my gun

One is for killing

The others for fun

So until this war is over

Or until your time is done

This is your rifle and this one is your gun
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2018-03-17 07:20  

#3  Penis envy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-17 05:21  

#2  Scientific American is guilty of committing F.U.D. With this article.
Fear Uncertainty an Doubt -A disinformation strategy used in propaganda
Posted by: 3dc   2018-03-17 05:04  

#1  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.

"The government cannot give you anything, that it has not already taken away from someone else."

~ Churchill (a paraphrase, I believe)
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-17 02:14