Overcompensation Nation: It’s time to admit that toxic masculinity drives gun violence

[billh58]

4. Exactly, and here's more evidence

of the quest for manhood and bravery through guns:

Consider the ads that gun manufacturers run to lure their buyers.

Glock guns give men “confidence to live your life.” The Walther PPX handgun is “Tough. Very Tough.” The Tavor Semi-Automatic Rifle, gripped menacingly by a faceless man wearing a sniper’s jacket and shooting gloves, will restore the “balance of power” to anyone holding the gun.

Ads often invite men to imagine themselves as warriors in camouflage taking on a hostile world. Buying a Bushmaster semi-automatic “confirms that you are a Man’s Man, the last of a dying breed, with all the rights and privileges duly afforded.”

In other words, guns give these men strength, status, power, and respect — exactly what many white men feel they have been hemorrhaging ever since the 1960s.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-steinhorn/white-men-and-their-guns_b_4419903.html

Wannabe soldiers and "militiamen" playing war games and bragging about their knowledge of all things guns.