Why???? Why are gun people like this?

[brettdale]

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

1. Penis envy.

[In It to Win It]

2. It says 3% of Americans own 133MM firearms on that Twitter thread. That's frightening

[former9thward]

6. Totally made up numbers.

Where do they come from? Guns are not registered and gun owners are not either. People just make up these things on the internet because they know others will repeat them.

[In It to Win It]

8. Not necessarily. I did look it up before posting it

It was according to a survey that was conducted in 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey

[former9thward]

10. Ohh yes, a survey....

From the link: The unpublished Harvard/Northeastern survey

Now why would it be unpublished? Because the universities know it has no credibility and they don't want to have to answer questions about it??

Who in their right mind would answer questions by anonymous strangers calling them on a phone and asking them if they have a gun in their home? No one. If you want to take it seriously go ahead. But its nonsense. And the so-called survey says we have 265 million guns. Now all the recent posts claim 400 million. So a increase of 135 million in 6 years? These are all numbers being pulled from thin air.

[In It to Win It]

12. I don't consider that improbable

You may question the source but it is not improbable that 9 to 10 million people in this country are avid "collectors" of guns that they would have at least 15 guns per person given the huge gun culture that this country has.

[asm128]

21. This study, which has been published

states similar facts: 3% of the US adult population owns 50% of the guns (page 44).

[link:https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/|]

So much for having no credibility, eh? Or maybe Harvard just doesn't know what they're doing.

[sl8]

35. Is that the correct link?

Your link goes to a page about one of David Hemenway's books, not a study.

Also, page 44 of the book doesn't discuss 3% of owners or 50% of firearms.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. How many firearms do you have, former9thward? BTW, this isn't a survey. ❤

[BeyondGeography]

33. Pareto's Principle, aka the 80/20 rule

All consumer-facing businesses selling discretionary products depend on high-volume users. All.of.them.

If they are working with a universe of 265 million guns in this country, that number owned by the top 3% makes perfect sense.

[former9thward]

54. Here is my survey.

In my Chicago neighborhood, which is 80-90% Hispanic, all homes have guns. I don't know or care how many. I found this fact out two summers ago during the looting taking place downtown and in various neighborhoods. The police were sent out of the neighborhood to protect downtown and the Mayor's house. In response we came out of our homes and stood guard with our guns to protect neighborhood local businesses from looters who were traveling around in trucks, My survey but believe what you want about college kids calling strangers.

[BeyondGeography]

55. IOW, you concede the point

I enjoyed your non-responsive response all the same.

[former9thward]

56. Some people love fantasy and denial in their lives.

I prefer to live in the real world.

[we can do it]

61. You live in Hispania?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. It's a hobby, and hobbyists love to show off their collections...

It's just that some collections are more wholesome than others.

[Diablo del sol]

11. I golf

Would give anyone a million dollars to find one picture of my clubs as the focal point in any picture. Might have a club in my hand at an event or golf bag in the background in some picture. But there is not one picture in my life where I laid out my clubs for a pic. When I was younger I played a lot of baseball and softball. Same thing, have shots of me in the field or at bat, but never one single picture of any bat or glove that I have ever owned. And I have glove that is special for sentimental reasons that I have owned and kept for 40 years now. Not one damn picture ever taken of just that glove.

These things are their babies, and that is flat out sick.

[Zeitghost]

14. I guess you haven't come across any Scotty Cameron fans

Putter collecting is a serious hobby and guys love to show off their collections.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. That's as silly as any showing off of personal collections...

but not as educational as artworks or as dangerous as guns.

[Zeitghost]

17. And some people

Find chasing a ball around an expensive park for hours on end to be a silly waste of a Saturday. Like most hobbies, those on the outside rarely see the appeal.

[Diablo del sol]

16. Just googled the following:

Scotty Cameron Putter Collections

AR-15 Collections

One brings up images where the majority (90+ Percent) are people selling Putters. The AR-15 was the exact opposite, Ammosexuals posting pics that give insight into twisted minds.

p.s. the guys posting Scotty Cameron putters are twisted too, trying to impress people with $400 plus putters. If I played with someone who showed me a similar pic, by the end of the round I would joke that I am going to shove one of those putters up your ass. Worse thing, he swings it at me. With an AR-15 he shoots me, the other guys then takes out others.

[Zeitghost]

18. I'm not sure how one could come to an ethical conclusion

On putter collecting. But those that like to feel superior to others can always find someway to put down things that bring joy to others.

[Bristlecone]

4. Jesus looking down on the pile of death tools.

Those folks really know how to spruce up their place.

Says 2019, so by now they may have saved up enough for a matching laminate coffee table.

[Baked Potato]

5. Stupid showing off the do-wells. Just saying. Nt

[betsuni]

7. Fashion, a trend, stuff.

Like how so many people bought huge SUVs, huge McMansions, have closets full of shoes.

And the perfect symbol of anti-intellectualism, the anti-"elites" everyone's obsessed about.

[usonian]

9. Agree with LakeArenal, it's sexual projection.

Also, society fetishises guns, like "jewels" to collect and admire ... even fondle ...

Those are two powerful forces.

No real need for all this excess

[stopdiggin]

29. this collection at least shows

an array of different types, function and historical vintage and relevance.

Chances are you've identified a real collector and aficionado (and not a cos-play, camo dude) in this one.

[sl8]

32. Burt's gun wall:

https://stampede-entertainment.com/tremors3/guns.html

[Amishman]

34. Nothing compared to my BiL's collection

200 some guns on walls and racks, like a military armory. He says he has them all on display like that (in a vault room) so he can find the one he's looking for when he wants it.

I have no pictures, he doesn't allow his collection to be photographed because he doesn't want it to end up on the net.

[Initech]

13. It's a fetish. Or an addiction.

[Fla_Democrat]

19. Danyela is a professional competition shooter.

Remember watching her run 3 gun back when she was 15 or 16.

It's interesting to see the collections of the Hawaiian residents. Pretty impressive considering the bat crap laws they live with.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Who is Danyela? I looked through the thread on Twitter and couldn't find her.

I'd like to know more about her. TIA ❤

[Fla_Democrat]

37. When I clicked the tweet.....

She is 2 pictures above the 2 African American gentlemen sitting on the couch, Collin Singletom (45) and James Prince (41), Atlanta, Georgia.

Link to tweet

/photo/1


https://www.facebook.com/danyeladangelo

[Yavin4]

20. The American lifestyle is soulless, atomized, isolated, and debt-ridden.

All of which leads to mental health problems. People own so many guns because they're hyper paranoid about the world outside of their home. This happens when you live in a single family home in the suburbs where you have little to no contact with people on a daily basis.

Most gun deaths are suicide or accidents.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. By themselves, they feel inadequate.

Building a collection to show off makes them more important, supposedly. (Spoiler: It doesn't actually work.)

The bigger the gun collection, the bigger the inferiority complex.

[jmowreader]

23. That number behind the names...

Is that their age, or the number of guns they own?

[NJCher]

24. they love defiance

and they have attitudes.

I think the gun makes them think they have power. Without their guns they feel powerless.

Remember Charlton Heston's cold dead hands remark? All these pics and expressions reflect defiance.

Now what they are defiant about is a mystery to me.

[LiberatedUSA]

42. I can tell you.

They are saying “we didn’t buy all these just to turn them in.”

That is what they are saying.

[EthanBlue]

25. Depends

It really depends on the person. I knew a gun owner that had a collection of very old guns. Stuff from the civil war, (that’s what he told me it was, not a gun pets so he could have been lying) He was proud as he held a piece of history.

Others well… They like the power and danger I guess.

[littlemissmartypants]

27. I can't help but think about all the wasted money, too.

I wonder if they have equivalent amounts of money in savings, in their pension funds, in their kid's college funds, in a fund to pay for health-care co-pays ('cause, you know accidents are going to happen) or are their funds invested in a money making venture or something similar?

Have they got enough to pay for at least a couple of firearms training sessions?

How about some extra curricular activities or special after-school lessons for their children or for Summer camps? Are they helping out their aging family members? Do they make donations for the betterment of society any where?

Clearly, some of them could use some home furnishings and apparently could afford better interior decorating, too. If they didn't feel compelled to waste so much of their money on drugs. Oops. I meant firearms.



❤

[NJCher]

47. you read my mind

especially this:

Clearly, some of them could use some home furnishings and apparently could afford better interior decorating, too.

A living room the size of walk-in closet, but gotta' buy those guns first!

On the other hand, a bathtub more commonly found in a Las Vegas honeymoon suite suggests some rather peculiar sentiments.

And as far as your other comments, just about everything you outline is the province of a responsible citizen.

[PJMcK]

60. I had a similar thought

Last week, we went to a sporting shop in rural Pennsylvania to have my wife's fishing rod repaired. The shop was full of fishing and hunting gear and they offer a wide variety of firearms. These included pistols, both large and small, rifles of all sorts and tons of ammunition. The firearms were expensive, priced from about $250 to over $3,500. From the number of weapons in the pictures, these gun-humpers have spent a fortune on their little "hobby."

Count me out.

[SYFROYH]

30. IIRC, they were asked to pose with their collections.

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I remember when this photo essay came out about a year ago.

[NJCher]

48. that may be so, but

We've been seeing pictures that portray "collections" like this for at least a decade.

With them, it's a thing.

[SYFROYH]

59. Well if you google 'people posing with their collections'

You’ll see lots of people posing in a similar manner with different collections.

[Irish_Dem]

31. These are pictures of a sexual gun fetish.

A fetish that involves power, domination, violence, death and sexual arousal.

[Thtwudbeme]

36. I have a friend whose husband has a gun collection like that. Their son

shot himself in the garage/ outbuilding where the collection was displayed last year.

Mark was 25 years old.

Would he have done the same thing if they owned a pistol, a shotgun and a hunting rifle? (They are midwest rural)

We'll never know. And I'll shove hot coals under my toenails before I ask which gun he used, or what he said in his note.

[eShirl]

38. deep-seated paranoia, imho

[Novara]

39. fetish objects

Oh yes, people like to show off their collections, blah blah blah.

My Mom's connection of cat figurines won't slaughter a 4th grade class.

[allegorical oracle]

40. In my rural area of Florida, success is measured in guns and trucks. Just three of

my neighbors own gun collections totaling at least 75 weapons. Here, guns also function as currency. If someone needs some fast cash, they can easily sell a gun. I know because I have been called and offered guns to buy.

[spanone]

41. ...and Jesus on the wall....

crazy fucks

[whistler162]

43. Same reason people retweet

twits that tweet tweets that are created to sucker people into retweeting them!

[onethatcares]

44. I'd rather collect heirloom tomato seeds

or sea shells.

[tanyev]

45. I could make a pretty impressive design with all my books.

But the time it would take to set them up and put them away is valuable time I could be, you know, reading.

[HAB911]

46. No different than any cult

[Mosby]

49. Maybe it's a form of hoarding.

[onethatcares]

52. yeah, like if you had that many fishing rods

those same folks would be telling you that you're sick or something.

[Patton French]

50. They like to needle. (N/T)

[Mr. Ected]

51. Because Supreme Court

Because obsession.

Because fear.

Because anger.

[ellie]

53. Lunatics

[Tree Lady]

57. I think its pride for some

And some like to trigger others. Makes them feel powerful.

When I see these pics I feel deep sadness and angry that they are allowed so many.

[mainer]

58. Kid needs a new bike. Parents instead spend $200,000 on guns.

People on twitter who know guns estimate that's how much these guns must have cost them.

Link to tweet