It’s hard out here for a P.I.M.P.H. (person inclined to be macho and pack heat). You love your gun more than you love Christmas, and your nontraditional love is protected by the Second Amendment, yet it seems like everyone hates guns and hates you for owning them — that and it feels like every other day Obama is launching elaborate, highly coordinated, perfectly acted false-flag mass shootings to trick the public into thinking we have a gun problem (this from the same government that misspells both your first and last name on your tax return, Bolb Johnqson).

Let’s face it: Guns are used for a lot of valid reasons: hunting, protecting the homestead, protecting yourself, party tricks at your Uncle Carl’s house, backing you up in case you run into trouble in that strip-mall Chipotle full of middle-school cheerleaders.

I think it’s also fair to acknowledge that guns have a huge symbolic significance for many owners. They’re not only a weapon; they’re a lifestyle choice, a tool to help compensate for things we may be personally lacking.

The joke is that the bigger the gun, the tinier the penis, and while that may be absolutely, 100-percent true in every single case, there are other things guns compensate for. Here are eight of them (see the article for explanations):

8. Your lack of claws, sharp teeth, and the ability to run faster than your prey.

7. The fact that Rhonda took everything.

6. The fact that no one thinks you are special.

5. The fact that you can’t do a pull-up.

4. Your laziness.

3. Your demeaning job at a big-box store.

2. The fact that you played a cumulative 47 seconds in four years of high-school football.

1. The fact that you can’t find the can opener.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-second-city-network/8-things-guns-compensate-for-besides-your-penis_b_5525657.html

Call this Freudian psychobabble analysis, but when you add it into the mix of just angry white males who want their guns to show that they are still top dog on the political, social and marital hierarchy, you got a good percentage of the psychologically need gun owners. A gun, particularly assault weapons and lethal militarized handguns, are at least two things: a prosthetic dick and a sign that even unemployed white guys still rule the Western World and sit at the head of the kitchen table.

We're talking about a dying patriarchy making a last stand with the ownership and brandishing of weapons that provide the semblance of ultimate power over life and death.

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/many-american-white-men-worship-guns-because-of-sexual-insecurity-entitlement-and-profit/17892-many-american-white-men-worship-guns-because-of-sexual-insecurity-entitlement-and-profit