Posted on 11/07/2013 6:45:15 PM PST by DogByte6RER
White racists more likely to be gun owners: study
Are gun ownership and racism linked?
Researchers have found that the more racist beliefs held by a white person, the more likely the person is to own a gun — conclusions that have rankled gun rights advocates.
A team led by Kerry O'Brien, of Monash University in Australia and The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, examined white Americans’ negative perceptions about blacks and compared the rates of both gun ownership and opposition to gun control to discover the correlations.
Researchers based their conclusions on the results of a multiple-choice questionnaire that measured responses to a series of statements about attitudes toward black people. The more strongly a person agreed with a statement, the more points they accumulated.
The total points were then averaged to come up with a score between one and five that determined “symbolic racism.” Researchers found that the more points a person accumulated, the greater their chances of owning a gun and of opposing gun control.
The report, published in the peer-reviewed online publication PLoS One, said that for each one-point increase “there was a 50 percent increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28 percent increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.”
While symbolic racism, which is a subtle but modern measure of anti-black racism, was associated with higher rates of gun ownership, researchers also attempted to identify signs of overt racism, which did not appear to have any correlation to gun ownership.
The study used data collected through the American National Election Studies — an academically run survey of U.S. voters — but only sought to measure white respondents beliefs ...
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Did you post that to me in error?
There doesn’t seem to be any relationship to my post.
Wait, so Democrats are more likely to own guns? That doesn’t seem right...
Anyone who is not "racist" according to that criterion must be a brain-dead liberal or must blindly ignore the thousands of times the MSM systematically refuses to list the race of perpetrators of the ubiquitous black-on white violence.
(Hmm -- I notice I was being repetitive there...)
Time to tell the statistics on black on white crime... actions not works... Truth not crap...
I’m sorry, it was just in general to the thread.
“Except for black racists.” ?????
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
I wonder whether white journalists were evaluated vis-à-vis racist attitudes, either anti-black or anti-white.
This headline could be a finalist for agenda-laden headline of the year.
WOW!
what did they report about black racists?
White, Christian, Married, business owner, NRA member, Former military, Home owner.
Yep, and according to obammy this all makes me racist!
obammy is a closet fag
Is Black Pride racist? Black Supremacy?
Just more propaganda.
Since the likelihood of having to defend yourself from a Black perp, I guess it makes all of us racist. Better racist than “deceasist”...
“Racist or realist?”
Zackly!
Knowledgeable whites have a well founded awareness of black racist violence against whites. “Realist” is the accurate term.
*yawn*
Crazy liberal racist projection....again?
The left is going to be surprised when they declare “race war!” and get fired on by their own troops.
White racists are more likely to be LEGAL gun owners. However, blacks with ILLEGAL guns are killing more people...ask anyone in Chicago. What’s the greater threat?
Maybe add in that sissyboys and queers are 'fraid of firearms...
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