Guns and anxiety about masculinity
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January 22, 2015 at 2:18pm
This article on CNN, published a couple of years ago, is pretty good on the subject.
Not that it isn’t obvious.
It’s the reason some men like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando keep guns when they have no proper reason for doing so as they don’t hunt or sport-shoot.
Incidentally, the once-upon-a-time Green Politician of the Year is voting in favour of spring hunting.
If you’re anxious about your masculinity, if you aren’t quite sure whether those around you find you sufficiently strong and potent, the Bushmaster corporation has an answer for you. If you buy one of their semi-automatic rifles — like the kind Adam Lanza used to murder 20 children and six adults last week — you may “Consider your Man Card reissued.”
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/20/opinion/waldman-guns-manhood/
And there I was, hoping Jeffrey and Franco would accept Saviour’s invitation to provide us with a civilised and balanced discussion.
Looks like we’re gonna have some of Franco’s madness on TVM this Friday.
Watch here from 22 secs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGR4X9QE4YI
Fu***** unbelievable!
The Broadcasting Authority wouldn’t have allowed it, for safety reasons.
With all three in one room, the testosterone levels would have blown the roof off.
The idiot “Bro’s before hoe’s” attitude.
Come on Daphne… this is total rubbish!
[Daphne – Well, next time you have a Yes parade, why don’t you all get ’em out for the lads and prove it then.]
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This post made me feel all macho since I find firearms repulsive.
Also it made me wonder if hunters really love hunting or if they just love to riddle wild birds with lead pellets.
I would love to know what hunters will do if the government were to allow spring hunting, but ban all hunting rifles at the same time. Like free-diving spear-fishing, hunters could only use a bow and arrow or a sling shot.
Most things would not be changed for the hunters. They get to stay out in the country, in their little hides, with their coffee and snacks while they hunt and kill wild birds.
The difference is there is more skill involved, more patience, more stealth, more peace and quiet, less disruptions, less red and blue cartridges littering the countryside. Birds will also be killed in smaller numbers and those which fly high like storks and falcons will be out of range.
I would dare say that even H. P. Baxxter would tend to agree with the proposal. Everybody wins.
But would the ‘hunters’ accept it? Would they still end up in Monte Carmeli?