Liberal Science: White Men Like Guns Because They Are Racist

Did you ever wonder why white men like guns? Me neither, but this is a pressing issue for the left so they did some of that liberal science and came up with white men like guns because they are racist. This was in Scientific America which has “science” right in the title so you know it’s extra sciencey. Not only do white men like guns because they are racist it’s also because they hate Obama and that makes it doubly racist.

I don’t know if there was a time when Scientific America was a credible science journal, but they definitely are not now, publishing crap like this:

Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?

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

Racial fears? That sounds racist.

Since the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled, while imports have doubled. This doesn’t mean more households have guns than ever before—that percentage has stayed fairly steady for decades. Rather, more guns are being stockpiled by a small number of individuals. Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.

So, who is buying all these guns—and why?

The short, broad-brush answer to the first part of that question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.

Get ready for it:

These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated.

So according to “science” white men like guns because they are dumb racists? Apparently so, but these dumb rednecks aren’t just regular racists, they are Obama-hating racists:

When Northland College sociologist Angela Stroud studied applications for licenses to carry concealed firearms in Texas, which exploded after President Obama was elected, she found applicants were overwhelmingly dominated by white men.

But Stroud also discovered another motivation: racial anxiety. “A lot of people talked about how important Obama was to get a concealed-carry license: ‘He’s for free health care, he’s for welfare.’ They were asking, ‘Whatever happened to hard work?’” Obama’s presidency, they feared, would empower minorities to threaten their property and families.

They aren’t kidding. They are calling this hard science:

The insight Stroud gained from her interviews is backed up by many, many studies. A 2013 paper by a team of United Kingdom researchers found that a one-point jump in the scale they used to measure racism increased the odds of owning a gun by 50 percent. A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that racial resentment among whites fueled opposition to gun control. This drives political affiliations: A 2017 study in the Social Studies Quarterly found that gun owners had become 50 percent more likely to vote Republican since 1972—and that gun culture had become strongly associated with explicit racism.

This garbage keeps going and then turns into a call for strict gun control. After saying these racist white men with guns are actually a danger to society, we get this:

What are the solutions? That and many other studies suggest that restricting the flow of guns and ammunition would certainly save lives.

This is liberal science at its finest: white men like guns because they are racist, this armed racism is a threat to everyone, and so we must restrict white men from getting their hands on guns and ammo. These are the same crack liberal scientists who tell us that global warming causes snow and men in a dresses are really women.

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