New Study -- Guns Rile Men Up

[longeyes]

A more insidious danger than guns is the rush to medicalize behavior. Let's stipulate that handling a gun causes testosterone levels to rise. Let's also concede that elevated testosterone levels are associated with aggression. So what? Does this tell us anything important or new? Science is learning how to measure all sorts of really interesting things, from the effects of porn on the male brain to the effects of porn on the male brain. Whoops. I guess that answers what those effects are.

In the future we can dispense with judges and juries; all we'll need are two medical "experts" to condemn any one to hard labor. "Health" has replaced morality. Exactly so. And we all knows guns are a symptom of a social disease, right?

 

[sacp81170a]

Just think, if Barry Bonds had only bought a few guns and handled them regularly he could have avoided all his problems with anabolic steroids. What's next? Will there be an international commission monitoring Olympic athletes for gun possession?

 

[Don Gwinn]

Distra, I graduated from Monmouth in 2000, and Knox will always be the home of the Prairie Flamers to me.

Knox College (Motto: "Lincoln and Douglas spoke here, and in the next hundred years. . . .did we mention the Lincoln-Douglas thing?")

Real men wear kilts.

 

[distra]

Gwinn, I remember the Monmouth motto: We are the college next to the college where the Lincoln and Douglas debate was held...Sorry, nothing to show for ourselves 'cept these funny dresses

On a more firearms note, are you guys back there ever gonna' get ride of Dailey's cronies so you actual get a CCW law passed? I've tried to influence/council my parents to vote to get rid of these guys. No luck as of yet. It seems IL is good place to be from these days.

 

[Hyunchback]

I love the smell of b*__sh*_ in the morning...

Smells like...

A study designed with the outcome in mind. Not scientific. What was their hypothesis? "I bet I can make gun owners looks like violent idiots"?

If gun handling increased aggression shooting ranges would be the site of massive violence. NRA conventions would be Armageddon. The SHOT show would be a bloodbath.

As the facts stand I would put money that during any 5 year period in any major U.S. city more people were shot in malls with no gun stores than in shooting ranges in the same city. That would be an easy study to do involving nothing more strenuous than pouring over public records.

But it wouldn't show what the people behind the study wanted to show.

So, if we accept my assertion that more shootings occur at malls than at shooting ranges does that mean we should ban shopping malls?

Since the overwhelming majority of people struck by rounds at shooting ranges are hit by negligent discharges and accidents and the majority of people hit by bullets at shopping malls are hit by a person intent on using violence it shows me that shopping malls cause aggression, no matter how much or how little testosterone one finds in saliva.

 

[flashman70]

I try not to drool when I handle my guns....could cause them to rust.

 

[HiWayMan]

We mustn't forget that not only did the participants have to dis-assemble and re-assemble a handgun and board game, but they also had to write instructions for the operation. I'm an engineer and do technical writing daily. Writing directions on how to assemble a damn board game is a walk in the park. Try writing instructions for the re-assembly of a Ruger Mark II (Thank You Yowza), or any handgun. Most manufactures can't get it right, let alone the layman. I can't think of a single firearm I own that doesn't have some little trick to re-assembly. The trouble is the trial and error of finding it.

As has been the general concensus. This study is pure BS.

 

[Dain Bramage]

The study is absolutely correct. They found that men often affect an exaggerated southern accent, and swear in a colorful but G-rated manner, while rapid-firing their twin six-guns into the ground, causing them to levitate in the air.

Of course their only test subject was Yosemite Sam.

 

[longeyes]

Testosterone is The Great Satan.

 

[AJAX22]

This is just more irrelevant pseudo science, where was the controll group?

did they have a group that was asked to do the gun project then pour themselves a hot sauce drink?

Maby men with more testasterone like a bit more kick in there drinks?

I mean using this studys logic, working on a v8 motor increases the desire to revert to alcoholism in men.

mousetrap is cake to put togeather compared with an object that 90% of men don't even know what to call the parts.

seriously, if anyoine has the money to finance a study, just let me know what you want it to say, we can make it happen. and do a better job than these jokers.