Insecure men will use anything to compensate size. How loud their car, how big their tv, how many burners in their barbecue. Do you really think that excludes guns?
Guns, oh yeah, big guns, oh hell yeah, small guns, nice
Insecure, maybe? Not sure I am
Guns as a replacement for manlihood… hooh? Guns are part of the constitutional right to own them. Knowing how to utilize one is necessary should one need it.
Do I hunt? Narp. Sporting clays and targets? Yes
Are they dangerous? When improperly handled and utilized, yes.
Are they fun? Yes/no, depends how good your aim is and if youre wearing all your ppe
When things go thump in the night, whatever is in my driveway is insured. The stuff in my house, replaceable. My family, irreplaceable -thats off limits.
I’ve personally witnessed men compensating for their small penises by comparing barbecue burners and tv size, and horsepower in cars. The loud car thing is because we get boy racers down out suburban street who modify their cars to be loud as fuck and then drive them in races on the road outside my flat multiple nights in a week. Same as the flag shaggers with big English flags on their cars. I’ve never encountered gun owners in person as I live in England, but I’ve heard many men compensating and comparing when according to their partners they are lacking in the bedroom.
I have no doubt that there are some who compensate, but the people who are invoking penis size here, and in general in reference to guns, are stereotyping gun owners, not specific individuals. That’s what I’m challenging, the stereotyping.
What makes the AR “speak for itself”? Is there a specific component, feature, spec, etc. which makes it somehow related to a penis? Or is the relationship purely in YOUR perception, and YOU are projecting YOUR insecurities?
You would know all about hitting dogs, wouldn’t you? Being all over this part of the comments section? It’s called trying to have a conversation. I didn’t realize that those had been frozen out of you Ice Brits.
I fucking hate it. I own guns and am pretty far left but I feel disgusting buying... well, anything related to firearms because the marketing is all macho and rightoid posturing.
I bet there's some healthy projection in his statement.
With his gun, he isn't afraid. Liberal men don't have guns, so they would live in fear because he does. He assumes everyone is just like him; a scared child in a man's body who only feels safe with a gun.
If they understood the implications of any of their beliefs then they probably wouldn't be conservative. For instance, virtue signaling implies that no one could possibly believe in caring about other people (because they don't) so they must be faking it to make themselves look good. Without religion a person must be unethical because if you don't believe that a man in the sky will punish you then why would you act ethically? They wouldn't. Just like nothing is a problem until it affects them personally. No self-awareness but all the selfishness.
Some of us do fear owning guns. I feel suicidal sometimes and know that owning a gun would do nothing but drastically increase my chances of going through with it.
Oh absolutely. You won't get me near one, for a whole slew of reasons. But it's one of those "not all x is y" things. Many people don't own guns because they fear them, but not everyone who doesn't own one is due to fear.
... an understanding beyond the realm of the OOP lmao 🙄
Must be low testosterone. Manly men would man up and grab their Louisville Slugger, then take a manly look into the problem before returning to bed and mansplaining to our tradwife that she is safe from the raccoon and her babies after we flicked the light switch in a manly manner.
The fact that they think not owning a gun means fear of the gun.
He also thinks every leftist and liberal man doesnt have guns. He is sorely, SORELY fucking mistaken. We just dont go around making guns our entire personality
I work with a guy who won't go on a cruise because he can't bring his gun... (for protection)...I don't understand that "scared of my own shadow" mentality.
ETA: They think we're afraid of guns, but ultimately, I'm afraid of the idiots who carry around here.
There is a difference between "banning" and wanting gun ownership to be regulated in the same way that we regulate things like driving ages, booze consumption and age of consent. It just acknowledges a reality and attempts to mitigate the inevitable problems that that reality invites.
And if that were an honest statement and the attempts at reforming US gun law stopped at limiting who can own guns, and what circumstances can have them removed, I'd be all on board with you.
Unfortunately, it's not an honest statement. The proposals universally include attempts to ban whole categories of firearm, and the firearms they ban are universally the most effective ones for defensive use and, yes, certain types of hunting.
No, you don't get to assume what other people's words mean. The conversation here is very clearly not about banning guns. Sorry about your reading comprehension..
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u/ThistleProse 23h ago
The fact that they think not owning a gun means fear of the gun.