Sometimes studies confirm what we already know, but it's good to have to data anyway. Study finds gun culture associated with racism.
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According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license ... are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. 2/
A 2013 paper ... 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. 3/
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. 4/
economically insecure, irreligious white men: "gun is a ubiquitous symbol of power and independence, two things white males are worried about...Guns, therefore, provide a way to regain their masculinity, which they perceive has been eroded by increasing economic impotency" 5/
They are anti-government "these men tend to see themselves as devoted patriots, but make a distinction between the federal government and the ‘nation,’ says Froese. “On that point, I expect that many in this group see the ‘nation’ as being white 6/
White men aren’t just the Americans most likely to own guns; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they’re also the people most likely to put them in their own mouths and pull the trigger, 7/
A gun in the home makes it five times more likely that a woman will be killed by her husband. Every week in America, 136 children and teenagers are shot—and more often than not, it’s a sibling, friend, parent, or relative who holds the gun. 8/8
