My hot take - if you own an AR-15 you have a few loose screws

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Complete citation:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002961022002057

The sustained effect of a temporary measure: Urban firearm mortality following expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban

The comments here alone pretty much back up OP's hot take.

Apples and hammers comparison.

The 1990’s were a period of overall economic expansion and positivity. No pandemics, no unending wars, no 8 year hangover from the Great Recession, etc. people were overall much happier in the 90’s. I should know, I was there. I was a lot happier then. I’m mad AF a lot of the time now, and I’m not alone in that.

That is the kind of thing that would get picked up on the annual neuropsych testing many are advocating for (along with an assault weapon ban, annual training recertification, liability insurance, background screening on all sales and transfers).

I know and the mental gymnastics these Ammosexuals will go through just to somehow not blame the guns. Despite the fact that in every other first world country it works.

What meds do you take?

Do you object to being called an ammosexual? Own it.

Yes, you are very clever coming up with the term "ammosexual" and dropping it left and right. I'll bet people are always telling you what a thoughtful and intelligent person you are [eye roll].

In using “ammosexual” as an insult, PP is trying to equate ammunition with something she thinks is disgusting- like how she feels about homosexuals and other sexual deviants.

Isn’t that right, PP? You disgusting homophobe. Go away.

The person who keeps trying to turn ammosexual into an insult is really going to pop a vein in her head when she discovers the pro-gun LGTBQI+ group, the Pink Pistols.

[Anonymous]

I’m for gun reform but the unclever “ammosexual” thing is not helpful and no proponent of gun reform would want this idiot to fight with them.

[Anonymous]

I like books. Does that make me a booksexual? I also mow my lawn, am I a mowersexual?

[Anonymous]

I'd believe the cries of the pro-gun people for better mental health care to solve this problem if it wasn't for the reality that mental health care receives very little support.

I'm a social worker. I have worked in crisis response services, in hospitals, in schools, and in private practice. The people that y'all want to be providing "better mental health care" are usually paid between $40k and $60k right out of school. Graduate school, mind you. Most new grads end up in community mental health care because that's where the biggest need is, but the pay is terrible. When I started, the best offer that I had was from CPS, and let me tell you, $65k/year is not enough to do that job. I worked 60 hour weeks in situations that most people on this board have never seen the likes of, which were frequently actually dangerous.

Conversations like this are really hard, as a person who has worked in schools preparing for active shooter situations, who has children who attend schools where they have those drills regularly, and now a private practice therapist working with kids and teens. It is extra hard to read them and know that there are a lot of people who think that if there were just more people like me, we could prevent massacres like this. I agree that more and better mental health care is a critical need for the US at this time, but the assumption that a case worker making $35k/year with a case load of 30 clients could have prevented this is flawed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd believe the cries of the pro-gun people for better mental health care to solve this problem if it wasn't for the reality that mental health care receives very little support.

I'm a social worker. I have worked in crisis response services, in hospitals, in schools, and in private practice. The people that y'all want to be providing "better mental health care" are usually paid between $40k and $60k right out of school. Graduate school, mind you. Most new grads end up in community mental health care because that's where the biggest need is, but the pay is terrible. When I started, the best offer that I had was from CPS, and let me tell you, $65k/year is not enough to do that job. I worked 60 hour weeks in situations that most people on this board have never seen the likes of, which were frequently actually dangerous.

Conversations like this are really hard, as a person who has worked in schools preparing for active shooter situations, who has children who attend schools where they have those drills regularly, and now a private practice therapist working with kids and teens. It is extra hard to read them and know that there are a lot of people who think that if there were just more people like me, we could prevent massacres like this. I agree that more and better mental health care is a critical need for the US at this time, but the assumption that a case worker making $35k/year with a case load of 30 clients could have prevented this is flawed.

This.

Most conservatives don’t want their “hard earned money” going to social services like FOOD for people. They sure as hell aren’t going to happily fork over more tax dollars for mental health services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like books. Does that make me a booksexual? I also mow my lawn, am I a mowersexual?

Petrosexual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Complete citation:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002961022002057

The sustained effect of a temporary measure: Urban firearm mortality following expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban

The comments here alone pretty much back up OP's hot take.

Apples and hammers comparison.

The 1990’s were a period of overall economic expansion and positivity. No pandemics, no unending wars, no 8 year hangover from the Great Recession, etc. people were overall much happier in the 90’s. I should know, I was there. I was a lot happier then. I’m mad AF a lot of the time now, and I’m not alone in that.

That is the kind of thing that would get picked up on the annual neuropsych testing many are advocating for (along with an assault weapon ban, annual training recertification, liability insurance, background screening on all sales and transfers).

I know and the mental gymnastics these Ammosexuals will go through just to somehow not blame the guns. Despite the fact that in every other first world country it works.

What meds do you take?

Do you object to being called an ammosexual? Own it.

Yes, you are very clever coming up with the term "ammosexual" and dropping it left and right. I'll bet people are always telling you what a thoughtful and intelligent person you are [eye roll].

DP. That term has been around for a long time.

What do you call people who fetishize guns?

[Anonymous]

One thing is for certain: police and military will never go house to house to take guns. They wouldn’t even go after one guy as he killed innocent babies. No way they will risk their lives taking guns from adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as the law allows it, it's not for me to judge. No, I don't own one, I don't ever will.

the law allows (and did allow) a lot of things that are absolutely for judging. Age of consent (for girls’ marriage) at 14 in texas for decades? Yeah, judge that. Separate but equal laws for much of U.S. history? Yeah, judge that. It is for you to judge, and it’s for you and others to use that judgment to try to change the laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guns are to many men the symbolic equivalent of red-soled Louboutins, they are a cheap purchase of an identity that is the shortcut past actually being a man (or woman). Guns signal toughness, manliness, brutality, etc. When you are a young man living in 2022 without a war to fight, a woman to woo or a house to build, how else is your manhood tested? How can you be sure you’re a real man? No one expects anything from you, just don’t be in the way.

Check out gun commercials if you want to know how aspirational masculinity is packaged for a generation grown up without fathers.

So many children dead because of high heels. Yes, definitely same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guns are to many men the symbolic equivalent of red-soled Louboutins, they are a cheap purchase of an identity that is the shortcut past actually being a man (or woman). Guns signal toughness, manliness, brutality, etc. When you are a young man living in 2022 without a war to fight, a woman to woo or a house to build, how else is your manhood tested? How can you be sure you’re a real man? No one expects anything from you, just don’t be in the way.

Check out gun commercials if you want to know how aspirational masculinity is packaged for a generation grown up without fathers.

So many children dead because of high heels. Yes, definitely same.

Is that some weird attempt to comment on the shooter’s frequent use of eye liner?

[Anonymous]

Rabid anti-gunners are really obsessed with the size of male genitalia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guns are to many men the symbolic equivalent of red-soled Louboutins, they are a cheap purchase of an identity that is the shortcut past actually being a man (or woman). Guns signal toughness, manliness, brutality, etc. When you are a young man living in 2022 without a war to fight, a woman to woo or a house to build, how else is your manhood tested? How can you be sure you’re a real man? No one expects anything from you, just don’t be in the way.

Check out gun commercials if you want to know how aspirational masculinity is packaged for a generation grown up without fathers.

So many children dead because of high heels. Yes, definitely same.

No, she's right. It's a signifier of identity. For a lot of men who are raised to think they're supposed to be "manly," a gun is a shortcut to that persona. Notice how many times Trump et al have used the word "hardening" lately? We are supposed to "harden" our schools. "Harden" our children. Etc.

Sometimes a cigar is exactly what you think a cigar would signify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guns are to many men the symbolic equivalent of red-soled Louboutins, they are a cheap purchase of an identity that is the shortcut past actually being a man (or woman). Guns signal toughness, manliness, brutality, etc. When you are a young man living in 2022 without a war to fight, a woman to woo or a house to build, how else is your manhood tested? How can you be sure you’re a real man? No one expects anything from you, just don’t be in the way.

Check out gun commercials if you want to know how aspirational masculinity is packaged for a generation grown up without fathers.

So many children dead because of high heels. Yes, definitely same.

No, she's right. It's a signifier of identity. For a lot of men who are raised to think they're supposed to be "manly," a gun is a shortcut to that persona. Notice how many times Trump et al have used the word "hardening" lately? We are supposed to "harden" our schools. "Harden" our children. Etc.

Sometimes a cigar is exactly what you think a cigar would signify.

You both are super weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing is for certain: police and military will never go house to house to take guns. They wouldn’t even go after one guy as he killed innocent babies. No way they will risk their lives taking guns from adults.

Not house to house but that’s pretty much exactly what they do with Maryland’s red flag laws. It is extraordinarily dangerous. We should appreciate the law enforcement officers that do it. I wish all states had such laws and I wish the Maryland one could be expanded.
https://health.maryland.gov/bha/suicideprevention/Documents/ERPO_Brochure%20PRINT%20Version.pdf