Whoa - pro-gun nerd community?

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http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/15/1529235

I'm an avid Slashdot reader (basically a news site for nerds). They allow you to post comments on any of their stories/headlines. After reading this brief story, I figured there would be millions of calls to "SAVE THE CHILDREN" and "GUNS R BAD LOL". ESPECIALLY since this took place in California.

Check it out, literally 99% of the comments are actually reasonable. Nerds are the new generation of gunners? Counterstrike has saved the 2nd amendment? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!?

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I am in college currently pursing a software engineering track, but I might switch to electrical engineering in the future.

I know a couple of pro-gun nerds at my college besides myself. CS along with a dislike of people telling us what to do has made guns fairly popular in the "nerd" community. At least in the US
 
Nothing new here. The Reddit/Slashdot/Digg crowd is overwhelmingly pro-RKBA. There's a number of trends pushing it but it's definitely real.
 
Of course nerds are pro-RKBA. Being picked on by bullies all their lives tends to have that effect. ;)


Seriously though, nerds are logical thinkers. Logical thinkers figure out that gun control is pointless pretty easily by themselves. It's no wonder most nerds are on our side (myself included).
 
One thing that I have found is that "nerds" are usually educated and intelligent people. All that it takes to gain a respect and fondness of the second amendment is logical deduction. That is why nerds "get it." They aren't willing to just take the liberal hippie view of the world without atleast analysing it first.


Man General you are good at beating people to the punch aren't you.
 
A few weeks back, I heard Robert Heron (of DL.TV) say that he was going to spend his tax rebate on a new handgun. :)

And anytime the topic of guns comes up on Dvorak.org, the posts run about 95% positive.
 
Seriously though, nerds are logical thinkers. Logical thinkers figure out that gun control is pointless pretty easily by themselves. It's no wonder most nerds are on our side (myself included).
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Yep. People in the field of using logic (engineering, IT, construction) tend to have no problem with firearms. They are just another tool out of many. I have yet to find an anti at my work.
 
I am a history major and have noticed that the majority of professors (there are still going to be some over-the-top liberal types in every field on a college campus) in the history field are pro-gun.

Most people who are in fields that force you to do research and be analytical are going to use logic in approaching situations. My professors are painfully fact-driven haha.
 
I am an IT twit by profession, and when I was in college, the majority of my classmates were gun enthusiasts. I worked as a student worker in the IT labs, and my supervisor had her CHL as did a number of the instructors in the department. (Beware the quiet ones). I found out about this by walking in on a 9mm vs .45 debate between a group of instructors (5 women, 3 men) in one of the instructor's offices.


Funny, Robert Heinlein, a strong sci-fi author who has an almost cult following amongst some nerd clans was in a debate once regarding the 2nd amendment. One side stated that a Polite Society is one in which there are no guns. Heinlein replied that while that was a very interesting ideal that it was not at all realistic. He stated that the Polite Society is one where everyone is armed. (I don't recall all of the exact details of that exchange, but that is the quick and ugly version).
 
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The engineers that I work with all seem to be gun folks. The subject always comes up when a bunch of us go out to dinner, and I'm not the one that brings it up. If anyone is anti-gun, they sure keep their mouth shut.

One guy that I work with (ironically, we share the same last name) has a seemingly unlimited number of gun, hunting, and explosive stories. He can go on all night. Most of them are of the "hold my beer and watch this" type :D
 
I am a history major and have noticed that the majority of professors (there are still going to be some over-the-top liberal types in every field on a college campus) in the history field are pro-gun.
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Of course history teachers will be pro-gun! Just like libertarians are pro gun. Being a history professor or history major means you would have encountered lots and lots of really screwed up things that happened in the past, through pictures, primary sources, or testimonies of people who had been there. And then logic simply kicks in, and one would realize that only the gun is the tool which enable the average person to defend themselves and their loved ones from the dangers ever-present in the world.

I am a history major too. And I can not recall any moment or second in my life in which I had been even the least bit anti-gun.
 
I found out about this by walking in on a 9mm vs .45 debate between a group of instructors (5 women, 3 men) in one of the instructor's offices.
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OMG! LOL!!:D:D:D First Glocktalk, then TFL, then THR, and now, in the OFFICE?? LOL!:what::neener::D
 
Some of the time, I think the experience of being a nerd makes one wary of popular opinion, a force that is normally between a person and a love of guns. Nerds are gadgeteers, too, so if their gadgetphilia is more mechanical than electronic, they are hard-pressed to find anything as purely mechanical as a firearm.

The DIY-ethic is strong among nerds, and that translates easily into firearms, I think--making one's own crystal radio is not terribly different from loading one's own ammunition.

But uh, *cough*, not being a nerd, I suppose I wouldn't really know....
 
Without having read all the posts to this point...

There is a reason "nerds" and such are not anti, even if they don't own or even like guns. It's because they smart, independently thinking, logical people. As such, they see the anti argument for what it is; illogical BS.


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I'm a big nerd. Own a bunch of macs... xbox, wii, you name it :)

Haha. And most of my nerd friends are proud gun owners.
 
Games are how I got involved with guns too.
Bit of a nerd, I admit, but I have grown out of it for a big part.
Still, the inner nerd will always be there I think :D
 
Boris Barowski said:
Games are how I got involved with guns too.
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I think remember you from Wiki, Boris. How's it goin'?

I love gun-based games, like Call of Duty, and Splinter Cell. But it always just drove me nuts when gamers thought they new everything about a gun JUST FROM PLAYING THE GAME. Then they wanted to write all about the game in the gun article. You may recall that's why I left Wiki.

There were tons for nerd-folk on Wikipedia. Rarely, if ever, did we hear from any anti contingent. I can't really recall any anti stuff at all.


-T.
 
Hi there :D

Everything's OK, although my wiki-activity is on a low level at the moment.

Some people do indeed think that because a particular firearm was used in a game, the games defines the entire gun. But that has calmed down a bit.

I'm still surprised on how little vandalism the wiki pages get from anti gun groups, most of it is "this gun is the s**t" or "whoa, I have one and it ROCKS". not very high road of them ;)

I started out with Counterstrike, then DoD, project IGI (was great :)) and the battlefield series. good times ^^
 
Check it out, literally 99% of the comments are actually reasonable. Nerds are the new generation of gunners? Counterstrike has saved the 2nd amendment? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!?
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I think you'll find a lot of "nerds" and "geeks" in the firearm community. I shoot with a number of people in the IT industry.
 
Reddit/Slashdot/Digg crowd is overwhelmingly pro-RKBA.
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I think its more a reflection of political ideology. Digg seems to have a more democratic reader base and is somewhat friendlier to gun control. Slashdot seems to draw the more open source libertarian crowd, at least to a degree I don't see on digg. They of course are less friendly to gun control.

In general though I think you'll find many tech minded people are gun owners. I consider myself an internet wrangler who got into it because of the freedom involved with the internet. I of course appreciate firearms and find many of the people I've worked with do too.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/ Some noteable geeks are gun owners too.
 
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