"Majority of men, Republicans, and Southerners report having a gun in their households"

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4. Women talk more

and men need to be physical to solve their problems. Guns are just another means to attack the problem with a physical object.

I worked the Overnight Shift alone in a Group Home with 6 mentally impaired men. The majority of staff who worked in these homes were WOMEN. It was against the law to have any type of a weapon in these homes.

Most of the nights, they slept, but not always. One time a man woke up and started screaming which woke up the other men who were furious. I was all alone. No guns, no weapons. We locked up all the cooking knives in the house.

I didn't run out of the house, or call the cops. I had to TALK THEM DOWN. That was my job and what I was trained and supposed to do.

No, guns. No, knives. Just a bit of training, my brain, and my mouth. How many men dependent on these guns for "protection" would have wanted to do this work? While I know their are women who are the same, the majority of guns are owned by MEN. It's like a gun is a extended symbol of their manhood.