{"id":352845,"date":"2018-03-19T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because-theyre-uneducated-racists\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:05:00","slug":"why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because-theyre-uneducated-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because-theyre-uneducated-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?\u2019 Because They\u2019re Uneducated Racists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/clay-waters\/2018\/03\/17\/scientific-american-why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because\"><strong>Newsbusters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Scientific American<\/em> continues on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-evidence-shows\/\">activist leftward path<\/a>, diluting its scientific brand by transmitting biased anti-gun propaganda under the cover of academic sociology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest entry was posted Wednesday and has become a popular post: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns\/\">\u201cWhy Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? \u2014 Research suggests it\u2019s largely because they\u2019re anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that headline wasn\u2019t a giveaway, writer Jeremy Adam Smith\u2019s bio left little hope for an objective take: \u201c\u2026.author or co-editor of four books, including <em>The Compassionate Instinct<\/em> and <em>Are We Born Racist?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After pointing out that \u201cSince the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled\u2026.\u201d Smith asked \u201cSo, who is buying all these guns \u2014 and why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His answer, boiled down: Dumb racists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u2026.The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male \u2014 but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated<\/strong>\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Assumptions of racism were made:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But Stroud also discovered another motivation: racial anxiety. \u201cA lot of people talked about how important Obama was to get a concealed-carry license: \u2018He\u2019s for free health care, he\u2019s for welfare.\u2019 They were asking, \u2018Whatever happened to hard work?\u2019\u201d <strong>Obama\u2019s presidency, they feared, would empower minorities to threaten their property and families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/clay-waters\/2018\/03\/17\/scientific-american-why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, March 18, 2018  at  8:35 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n       &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/scientific-american-why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because-theyre-uneducated-racists.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsbustersMarch 18, 2018 Scientific American continues on its activist leftward path, diluting its scientific brand by transmitting biased anti-gun propaganda under the cover of academic sociology. The latest entry was posted Wednesday and has become a popular post: \u201cWhy Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? \u2014 Research suggests it\u2019s largely because they\u2019re anxious about their ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}