"Young Americans who identify strongly with gun use and gun ownership often hold male supremacist beliefs and racial resentment."
~ Jennifer Gerson
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https://19thnews.org/2023/08/young-americans-gun-culture-male-supremacy-research/
"The young people who are most closely associated with guns are more likely to be White people who have worse symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to new research conducted by Everytown for Gun Safety, American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)."
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Pasha Dashtgard, the director of research at PERIL and an expert on male supremacy and online radicalization, says that many white men are feeling unsure of how to articulate themselves as men in current society, and, as a result, younger white men are "turning to guns as an 'unimpeachable access to masculinity.'”
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nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 That sounds like a polite way of saying that most “gun nuts” are crazy white cowards.
