Colorado columnist: Assault rifle owners have ‘tiny penises’ - Fox 31 Denver

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204. Need to find a new shorthand term for a real set of issues behind guns.

Obviously, insecurity is a major marketing point according to Bushmaster at least (see picture). This campaign would not have run for two years if it wasn't successful so I consider it a profound insight into the minds of the people who need to buy more and more powerful guns. It is about insecurities that are unfortunately well shorthanded by the genitalia slang.

The last generation? Yeah, they had guns. I grew up around guns. A couple guns for hunting. Ones that stayed in the family for years. But something changed in people. All of a sudden many became a bunch of crazy-cat-lady-like hoarders. Happened to my now-freeper brother -- in the 1970's he had a couple deer rifles and a shotgun for duck season and for our family that was well armed. By 2000 he had an SKS and an AK among 15 other rifles and shotguns, large capacity magazines, all the esoteric ammunition he could obtain, reloaders, tools and a handgun collection that is simply astounding. Literally by value 10% of his salary invested in weapons over 30 years. More money in guns than his house is worth. More money in guns than he spent on his kids. Or his cars. Or quite ironically on his retirement. By the way, simultaneously he becomes a freeper -- afraid of government, afraid of minorities, afraid of crime, afraid of a single liberal policy and most definitely above all else afraid someone will take his guns away. Brags proudly he is a single issue voter just based on gun rights arguments. Just like every gungeon denizen who echos the talking point that any criticism about guns drives voters away...

Color me crazy, but there is a link there somehow if I could just put my finger on it.

So basically while I don't fear the guns, I definitely fear the hoarders. The people who don't feel secure in basic everyday interactions unless they wear the power of life and death as some kind of ego accessory. The only time I feel uncomfortable in public is when I see someone with their weapon just "ready for anything." It always makes me wonder if they're protecting against trouble or getting ready to start it. Taking to some of them, I quickly realize that as a spectator to their pagentry they an expectation that I need to (cue the Cartman voice) "respect their authora-tah."

So, from my direct observations, guns are about control. About causing fear. About internal fears. SO here we are, back to the insecurity issue.

So, what shorthand to use other than the offending two word slang. I wish I knew. While vulgar, it is such a descriptive shorthand for the problems I actually have with guns -- their owners.