With a clear lack of understanding of the basis premise of thermodynamics and efficiency considerations, a pair of quasi-academics completed an apparent study, wasting time and in money forging an attack against white law-abiding citizens. For an asinine premise that could have easily been posted on social media, the researchers claim that the majority of Caucasian gun ownership can be linked to slavery, is detailed in ten pages of rhetoric cherry-picked directly from the countercultural movement, and featured on a prominent website. The actual conclusion made is the number of firearms owned in contemporary society is proportional to the number of enslaved people liberated in the middle of the 19th century.
The controversial research project is merely a facsimile of the myth perpetuating from the extreme left that most gun owners are white-trash undereducated bigots, an idea that has permeated through the soft underbelly and absence of critical thinking skills within the community of moderate suburban elitists. The authors are not subtle about their disgust for legal firearms ownership and the existence of the Second Amendment, which is not surprising considering one is a professor of psychology, and the other a graduate student. Ironically, academic culture feels quite comfortable behind their walls predominately bare of legacy ivy.
Moderators at Phys.org, an apparent aggregator of science and technology content, chose to feature the farce of a study, which caught the attention of algorithms and bots populating trending news lists throughout the digital expanse. Bracketed on the website by stories highlighting climate change, and education, the alleged research piece is a perfect fit for just another tech platform pushing a leftist narrative. The “About” section on the website explains, “The Science X editorial board operates in the public interest and is independent in relation to political, religious, economic, public and private special interests,” however this sentiment can be tossed out of the bar as only politicized content that adheres to a specific ideology is permitted.
The authors of the thought(less) treatise, journey into the wastelands of pseudo-intellectualism, where the absence of logic and the ulterior motive to brand a political hit piece as an academic paper coalesce to form a Bill Clinton inspired offspring of intellectual dishonesty so disingenuous and dense, that the resulting smoldering heap has its own gravitational field.
They surmise that a rise in gun ownership rates among white southerners rates was a result of a multitude of factors including the devastation from the Civil War, and the prevalence of emancipated individuals inhabiting the community. According to the researchers, this created a “fear” among former slave owners of “politically empowered black people”, which led to a spike in the amount of firearms per household. While insinuating that slavery was invented in the US, the authors could not resist making a broad generalization that transcends time. The butterfly effect from this apparent phenomenon of hysteria can be applied in predicting modern trends of gun ownership among Caucasians, and explains the leftist created label of “gun culture” that is often used in producing anti-gun rhetoric.
The language and overall tone of the article frames gun ownership in the US as detrimental to society with the usual anti-gun talking points. Although the researchers deliberately capitalize “Black people”, and use the lowercase form of “white southerners” in the same sentence, the heavily biased study offers little evidence for the claims, and a plethora of platitudes.
The study is culminated by the researchers concluding that the proliferation of “gun culture” to other geographical areas in the nation is rooted in “fear” and originated in the wake of the Civil War. Somehow, through the miracle of cultural osmosis, vast arsenals originated in the deep South, and prompted citizens in the North and the West to buy guns. This telepathic link between populations of different regions galvanized by racism towards blacks, and not the need for the self-defense, explains the socioeconomic nuances of firearms ownership. Thus, a women in Spokane, Washington, would probably not desire to carry a 9mm pistol for self protection, if not for the Emancipation Proclamation, and the influx of guns in the South 160 years ago.
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