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\"Report:<\/a>

Do you utilize guns as a foundational source of power and identity?\u00a0 (Photo: NBC News<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

In their never-ending quest to determine why anyone would want to own something as frightening as a firearm, the egg-heads think they have an answer.<\/p>\n

To combat a world that no longer \u201cexpressly favors them,\u201d white men deal with economic insecurity by owning guns and pretending to be John Wayne.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how researchers at Baylor University<\/a> put it:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demonstrate that white men in economic distress find comfort in guns as a means to reestablish a sense of individual power and moral certitude.\u201d In other words, \u201ceconomic distress enhances the extent to which white men, specifically, come to rely on the semiotic power of a cultural symbol… [they] utilize guns as a foundational source of power and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s authors set out to determine a better way to measure and describe the reasons for gun ownership in the United States. Dissatisfied with the generic term \u201cgun culture,\u201d they decided to focus on what guns mean to individual gun owners.<\/p>\n

They developed an \u201cempowerment\u201d scale, and asked 577 individuals whether their guns made them feel \u201csafe, responsible, in control, valuable, respected, and\/or patriotic.\u201d Based on their response to this question, researchers determined their level of \u201cempowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the various demographics broke down:<\/p>\n\"Report:<\/a>\n

As you can see from the chart, those whose firearms make them feel most empowered are white, male, and have high levels of economic precarity and social alienation. They are extremely conservative and believe that violence against the government might one day be necessary.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the spectrum, those whose firearms make them feel least empowered are non-white, female, and expressed moderate political views.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the study makes some interesting points about the diversity of the modern American gun owner. But to any member of the various gun cultures in the United States, the report reads like a scientist attempting to understand an alien life form.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:\u00a0Profile of a Gun Owner: \u2018Scared, Under-Educated, Paranoid White Guy\u2019?<\/a><\/h2>\n

At one point the authors hypothesize that guns have become \u201cobjects of worship\u201d and \u201csources of sacred meaning.\u201d Here\u2019s the gem they use to prove their point:<\/p>\n

Randall Collins (2004) notes that \u201cmany individuals who are intensely involved with guns spend much of their leisure time reloading ammunition \u2026 the long hours spent on reloading ammunition suggests that this is a ritualistic affirmation of the membership, something like a member in a religious cult engaging in private prayer, in actual physical contact with the sacred objects, like fingering the beads of rosary\u201d (p. 101).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Next time you\u2019re reloading, don\u2019t forget to offer your sacrificial lamb to the gun gods! It might help shrink those group sizes.)<\/p>\n

The authors also make a strange distinction throughout their report between \u201chandguns\u201d and \u201csemi-automatic\u201d firearms. They talk about \u201csemi-automatic gun bans,\u201d so they seem to be referring to semi-automatic rifles. But they don\u2019t appear to understand that handguns can also be semi-automatic.<\/p>\n

They conclude by offering a hypothesis as to why gun control legislation has failed to pass. According to the authors, \u201ca vocal and passionate minority of gun owners continues to feel emotionally and morally dependent on guns.\u201d These individuals hold a \u201cdeep commitment to gun rights and frontier masculinity,\u201d which makes them a powerful political force in D.C.<\/p>\n

In the final sentence the authors note that the failure of gun control legislation is not only due to money from gun manufactures and the NRA. The survival of Second Amendment rights has just as much (if not more) to do with the millions of American gun owners who stand in solidarity against those who would diminish the freedoms granted in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

At least they get one thing right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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