Are Gun nuts...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

Addicted to the adrenaline rush that shooting a gun gives them in thier own brain?

Maybe that addiction is why they cling to those guns beyond all reason?

An addict who is not recovering will do anything for another hit of their substance of choice.

Stealing from others,even family.
Even murder.

Maybe gun nuts are addicted to power and the andrenaline rush and are active addicts.
It makes you wonder.

[elleng]

1. Some probably are.

[Aristus]

2. I was a tank crewman in the Army.

I fired tank cannons, .50-caliber machine guns, and every small-arm the Army has. Never became addicted to it.

They were weapons of war. When I got out of the Army, I never fired a weapon again.

Guns nuts should either enlist or kill themselves, because they’re no use to the human race otherwise...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Agree

I just wonder about the profile/ personality/ past of people who leave military service and have shitloads of guns. Did they get addicted to firearms in the army..or some other way?


Gun nuttery is it an addiction driving it?

Is this why they are so hysterical they'll get their guns taken away?

So addicted they vote time after time for republicans because they know republicans
Are rabid gun nuts too?

[cilla4progress]

5. Wow, Aristus -

my props to you. Bringing your truth.

Right now my rural trumpy neighbors are recreational shooting. Every blast goes through my body and makes me shiver. I think of the geese flying up the river trying to make a home, the deer heavy in pregnancy, the other birds and even the trees and plants - it feels like such an unnecessary assault.

[Aristus]

9. Thanks...

[Bayard]

12. My sympathies

We have the same situation up the road, and today, they brought in company. Our dogs are terrified, and velcro to our legs, the horses and donkeys run around. I jump in the air the first couple shots.

You know, you move to the country for peace and quiet..... People like this have no respect.

[cilla4progress]

15. Same here.

Getting crowded where I live.

Covid seems to have pushed people further out.

The magic here is disappearing.

Everywhere people go they seem to trample it.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. Gun nuts...

There seem to be varieties of gun nuts.

The Semi-automatic/AK/AR/Military/uzi/assault rifle because that's what hollywood shows the bad guys using kind of gun nut, who doesn't hunt, never served, thinks it's cool and fun, has never been all that far from where he grew up (or she), wasn't the MVP, is a gamer, has a hard on for shows like Cops, lives in the suburbs, and thinks Office Space showed them how to be a gansta' middle aged phat fucks afraid of everyone not just like them...

and the guys who really do hunt. My half father is a WV native, served in the Triple Deuce in Vietnam 69-72, earned two silver stars, and was an avid outdoorsman before the army got him, and until he could no longer climb into a deer stand last year. Turkeys, deer, elk, bear. A sportsman about it, and he dresses and cleans and eats what he kills. He taught my two half brothers gun safety as he taught them to hunt. He'd walk beside them in the woods, and then move around and test them whether they'd move their rifles to the outside, always facing muzzle down. They prefer bow hunting, to be honest, when it comes to deer season.

The people I know who don't hunt, but who's daddies did, tend to favor handguns, or shotguns. Not Uzis

ARs aren't muskets, and sporting rifles, hunting rifles, sport pistols are not issued to our military. Professional drivers in Nascar and Indy racing and drag racing have engines and tires I simply cannot get for my Soccer mom SUV. Because I simply don't *need* them.

Just my personal observations.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Many of them have no sense of "community" at all.

Dog-eat-dog, take what you can get, prefer competition to cooperation, climb the ladders of opportunity and then yank it away from others, etc.

It's often them against the world, in their minds.

[Hoyt]

7. Think it bolsters their self-esteem. Since most gunners are white wingers,

it also helps them express their hate.

Gun marketeers knew who they were selling to when they ran this ad for the rifle used at Sandy Hook —

[abqtommy]

8. All of the above and then more.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. I wonder if the brains of "gun nuts" have ever been studied to find out if they

are physiologically different from normal people.

[GoodRaisin]

11. Probably some are addicted, yes. Others are on a macho trip, or just need to

fit in socially to their cultural setting. The below linked article suggests some common traits among gun humpers based on research it cites from others. It suggests:

Those who own guns tend to be part of a “social gun culture.”
Men who carry guns suffer from a “crisis of confidence.”
Gun owners tend to be angry and impulsive.
Holding a gun can make you paranoid.
Those with racist views are more likely to oppose gun reform.
Conservatives are far more likely to own firearms than others.

More at:
https://www.csgv.org/psychology-gun-ownership/

Someone "suffering from a crisis of confidence" is just as likely to cling beyond reason as someone who is addicted, or may suffer from both conditions. Personally I think it's become more of a social resistance than anything else. (A right wing social thing.)

[Creature]

13. I think most gun nuts are just fearful.

They are fearful of an overreaching government, loss of natural rights and personal liberty.

And judging by what is happening to this country, I am beginning to think gun nuts are paranoid for good reason.