{"id":95470,"date":"2023-08-27T04:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95470"},"modified":"2023-08-27T04:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:13:20","slug":"95470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95470","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slanted Findings of a Gun-Control \u201cStudy\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Everytown for Gun Safety is a Michael Bloomberg-funded gun-ban group that has never heard of an anti-gun proposal that it hasn\u2019t supported. So, when Everytown recently joined with The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab to study \u201cyouth\u201d and guns, it should come as no surprise that they \u201cfound\u201d exactly what they were looking for.<\/p>\n

The combined groups\u2019 new \u201cstudy<\/a>,\u201d titled \u201cU.S. Youth Attitudes On Guns Report,\u201d concluded that pro-gun youth are more likely to hold supremacist or racist views. \u201cEvidence from this study suggests that pro-gun attitudes were associated with more extreme worldviews like male supremacist ideation and racial resentment,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n

Before we get into the nuts and bolts, let\u2019s first take a look at an interesting aspect of the research. While it explicitly states \u201cYouth\u201d in the headline, the study participants ranged from 14 to 30 years old. Even the most-liberal definitions of \u201cyouth\u201d tend to use the parameters of 14 to 24. While there is no consensus on what defines \u201cyouth\u201d under law in the U.S., nearly every state, along with the federal government, considers the age at which one becomes an \u201cadult\u201d to be 18 years old. Some may debate including 18- to 24-year-olds among \u201cyouth,\u201d but adding 25- through 30-year-olds to the study ensures it doesn\u2019t have\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>validity concerning American \u201cyouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Part 1 of the study looked at pro-gun media and social-media websites on the internet. Part 2 was a survey of more than 4,000 people in the 14- to 30-year-old range. Part 3 was comprised of follow-up focus groups with respondents from Part 2. The \u201cfindings\u201d weren\u2019t very surprising, given who was conducting the pseudo-research.<\/p>\n

\u201cA young person\u2019s access to guns, identification with gun culture and exposure to media relating to guns correlated with concerning beliefs like support for male supremacy, belief that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to overthrow the government, higher levels of racial resentment and post-traumatic stress disorders,\u201d the study claimed.<\/p>\n

What must these \u201ckids\u201d have said to provoke such a blanket statement? In a nutshell, those performing the research simply didn\u2019t like some of the answers they received\u2014answers that make perfect sense to most law-abiding American gun owners.<\/p>\n

According to the researchers, men were more familiar, \u00a0and agreed more, with the following so-called \u201cgun narratives\u201d: \u201cGuns allow the weak to stand up to the strong,\u201d \u201cPeople should buy guns now because society might collapse in our lifetime,\u201d \u201cIt isn\u2019t fair that the actions of a few troubled individuals should have a negative effect on the gun rights of good Americans who have done everything right,\u201d \u201cGuns are the best way to defend yourself, loved ones and your community\u201d and \u201cGuns bring families together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concerning the alleged misogynistic nature of those identifying with the \u201cgun culture,\u201d the study authors seemed especially concerned that many males in the study felt a duty to protect females in their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cMale gun owners in focus groups stated that guns offer protection for themselves and their families, which may have also increased their feelings of confidence and control and reduced their sense of vulnerability to unpredictable violence,\u201d the report stated. \u201cWhile it is unlikely that they will use a gun to protect their wives and children, the belief that they should be ready to do so is a critical part of how male gun owners construct their gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

To many Americans, including many women, this normal male tendency to protect one\u2019s spouse and family from harm is a good thing, and has been considered so forever. To those at Everytown and the SPLC, however, it\u2019s apparently a sign of male supremacy and not to be condoned.<\/p>\n

Of course, who better to ratchet up the sexism and racism claims than\u00a0The Trace<\/em><\/a>, an anti-gun propaganda mill partially funded by Everytown that masquerades as a journalism outlet.\u00a0The Trace<\/em>\u00a0is one of Everytown\u2019s primary mechanisms to launder its disinformation out to the public, and \u201cmainstream\u201d media outlets often quote\u00a0The Trace<\/em>\u00a0as gospel. In this case,\u00a0The Trace<\/em>\u00a0headline left little doubt it was doing the job it is paid to do, claiming, \u201cReport: Young People Who Identify With Gun Culture Likely To Hold Racist Beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the \u201cresults\u201d were quite popular with those in the \u201cmainstream\u201d media, who are often quick to report just about anything bad about guns and gun ownership. One such outlet quickly posted a story that featured a picture of a man showing his young son how to aim a rifle at the 2022 NRA Annual Meetings in Houston with the shocking headline, \u201cYoung Americans who identify with gun culture are more likely to believe in male supremacy, research shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

PBS had a different, equally anti-gun take: \u201cMost young Americans feel unsafe and support stricter gun laws, new survey shows.\u201d While the report did state something like that, it\u2019s interesting to note that researchers had to throw out two-thirds of the study participants to come to this conclusion. The report actually states: \u201c59% of youth under 18 believe that gun control laws in the U.S. should be stricter than they are today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could it be a coincidence that such \u201cresearch\u201d has just become available right when American gun owners ages 18 through 20 are under fire like never before? Several states, including Nevada and Texas, are currently considering or have just considered legislation to ban ownership of common semi-auto rifles by American adults in that age group. Colorado even passed legislation banning all gun sales to adults who are 18 to 20 years old!<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden (D) has also got in on the action, as he managed to institute an \u201cenhanced\u201d background check for gun purchasers 18 to 20 years old through last year\u2019s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which the NRA opposed. Additionally, Illinois is set to ban firearms advertising that officials believe appeals to children. Whether or not those \u201cchildren\u201d will include the 30-year-old \u201cyouth\u201d in the Everytown study is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n

A cynical Second Amendment supporter might speculate that Everytown and the SPLC chose the timing of this new \u201cstudy\u201d in order to bolster the anti-gun argument for further restrictions on the constitutional rights of young American adults. It\u2019s certainly not unlikely that the groundbreaking \u201cresults\u201d will soon show up as \u201cfacts\u201d in the text of various bills and lawsuits concerning young adult gun ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Slanted Findings of a Gun-Control \u201cStudy\u201d Everytown for Gun Safety is a Michael Bloomberg-funded gun-ban group that has never heard of an anti-gun proposal that it hasn\u2019t supported. So, when Everytown recently joined with The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab to study \u201cyouth\u201d and guns, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95471,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95470\/revisions\/95471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}