[FRIAM] Cell Press / Patterns

[Prof David West]

Re: guns and hobbies.
It is hunting season and every day several hundred hunters are passing through the store and conversing among themselves. Almost all of them are masked and 70-75% have pistols strapped to their hips (men and women). Bow hunting just ended and elk season started with guns for deer next week.

Lots of conversation about bows and guns and laser sights, as you would expect among avid hobbyists. Less about the victims as only some of them manage to get horned prey. There is just as much conversation about the 3/4 Ton dually pick-up trucks guzzling $4/gal diesel — most with several thousand dollars worth of bling (like massive deer bumpers that could repel a charging rhino).

Get a lot of fisherfolk as well, but none of the hobbyist conversations among them as there is with the hunters.

Side note — probably something to do with global warming — fawns are being born the past two years as late as August. Really strange.

davew


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, at 2:37 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> I haven't followed it. Thanks. Looks like a cool service. 
> 
> I like your idea re: an underlying impetus to continue pouring money 
> into whatever hobby, including guns. Rather than "permission", though, 
> I'd think it's more like some sort of *reminder* ... "Oh yeah, guns are 
> cool. I should buy more." It's difficult to describe to a non-gun owner 
> how cool it actually is. Even the time my slide ripped my ... web (?) 
> between my index and thumb, similar to when you hook your earlobe with 
> a fish hook, there's something viscerally satisfying about dangerous 
> equipment ... welders, band saws, etc. Planers are the only ones that 
> truly scare me, for some reason. Even the table saw is less 
> intimidating. I guess I'd rather get my finger or hand chopped clean 
> off than get a 1 mm layer scraped off. Maybe the lathe freaks me out a 
> bit, I guess.
> 
> On 9/15/20 10:05 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > Is anyone else watching this open publication:  Cell Press/Patterns?
> > 
> > https://www.cell.com/patterns/home
> > 
> > I found the following paper on correlating firearm purchase/demand with
> > mass shootings.
> > 
> > https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(20)30110-0
> > 
> > Their two models seem to ignore/exclude *my* model which is that for
> > many gun owners, there is a constant pressure toward acquiring more (or
> > at least new) weapons and the mass shootings trigger some level of
> > "permission" to expand or upgrade a personal arsenal.   The counter
> > pressure could be familial/spousal  or superego which needs to be
> > negotiated with to allow more resource to go into satisfying that
> > background pressure to acquire.   The same thing applies to my relatives
> > who are knitters and quilters who use most any excuse for buying more
> > fabric/yarn.
> 
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