{"id":37805,"date":"2015-05-27T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=37805"},"modified":"2015-05-27T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:36:12","slug":"la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37807\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WcEQlsCC.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\" title=\"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37807\" title=\"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WcEQlsCC.jpeg\" alt=\"Jennifer Carlson, author of the book &quot;Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline.&quot;\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WcEQlsCC.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WcEQlsCC-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Carlson, author of the book &#8220;Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: <em>I had a chance to interview Ms. Carlson about her op-ed and her book, check out the interview <a href=\"\/blog\/author-responds-to-claim-that-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\" title=\"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>An interesting<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-carlson-gun-carry-culture-20150526-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\" title=\"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> op-ed in the Los Angeles Times<\/a> argued that men around the country carry firearms to address \u201csocial insecurities far beyond crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, your reason for carrying a firearm is not rooted in practical self-defense, rather you carry because you\u2019re compensating for your inability to bring home the bacon on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Carlson, the author of the article, wrote, \u201cAs men doubt their ability to provide, their desire to protect becomes all the more important. They see carrying a gun as a masculine duty and the gun itself as a vehicle for a hardened kind of care-work \u2014 caring for others by shielding them from danger, with the threat of lethal force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson goes on to say, \u201cIn Michigan and other places hit hard by the economic downturn, men&#8217;s guns can address social insecurities far beyond crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gun rights platform is not just about guns,\u201d she continues. \u201cIt&#8217;s also about a crisis of confidence in the American dream. And this is one reason gun control efforts ignite such intense backlashes: Restrictions are received as a personal affront to men who find in guns a sense of duty, relevance and even dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From my vantage point, I can\u2019t help but to feel that she\u2019s reading too much into why folks carry. It\u2019s really straightforward. People carry because (a) it&#8217;s a Constitutional right backed\u00a0by the natural right of self-defense, (b) when seconds count, the police are minutes away, and (c) at the end of the day, one is responsible for one\u2019s own safety; not the government.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think one\u2019s personal economics play that large of a factor. Put another way, whether one is doing well financially or one is struggling financially, the desire to carry is still there because, let\u2019s face it, serial rapists, mass murderers and thugs don\u2019t discriminate between those living the American dream and those struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s not to say that we are paranoid of the criminal element, as some anti-gunners contend, on the contrary, it\u2019s recognizing that regardless of how low the probability of an encounter is we\u2019d rather be prepared to deal with a threat then to put our lives, the lives of our children, spouses, etc. in the hands of evildoers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who carry concealed have a mindset that is not unlike those who learn CPR and other lifesaving techniques. \u00a0That is we all believe in being prepared and we train and\u00a0practice each discipline on the off chance that we&#8217;ll need them \u2014 not because we&#8217;re hyper-afraid of the dangers that this world presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn Michigan and other places hit hard by the economic downturn, men&#8217;s guns can address social insecurities far beyond crime,&#8221; LA Times Op-Ed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":37806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,262,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-defensive-use-of-firearms","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cIn Michigan and other places hit hard by the economic downturn, men&#039;s guns can address social insecurities far beyond crime,&quot; LA Times Op-Ed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LA Times: Men Carry Guns to Address \u2018Social Insecurities\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIn Michigan and other places hit hard by the economic downturn, men&#039;s guns can address social insecurities far beyond crime,&quot; LA Times Op-Ed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/la-times-men-carry-guns-to-address-social-insecurities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-27T16:23:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T18:36:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/la-oe-carlson-gun-carry-culture-20150526-001.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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