Slate offers psychological explanation of why conservatives are 'obsessed' with guns

Brett T. | 8:04 PM on March 01, 2018

It’s a little too late for this to be a scorching hot take on the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, but Slate has finally come through with a psychological explanation of why conservatives are “so obsessed with guns.”

Why are conservatives so obsessed with guns anyway? Here’s a psychological explanation: https://t.co/CfM2Gqncq2 pic.twitter.com/3HevAvnTbs

— Slate (@Slate) March 1, 2018

We don’t expect anyone to click over to Slate for the explanation, so here’s a short summary: conservatives have less empathy, dislike change, don’t do nuance, see human nature as bad, are more moralistic … in short, that’s why they cling to their guns and religion.

So who wants to tell Slate that defending Second Amendment rights isn’t the same as “being obsessed with guns”? Guess how much conservatives would talk about guns if liberals weren’t trying to chip away at the right to own them?

https://twitter.com/RealKiraDavis/status/969266356087500803

https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/969371023400407042

"If you like it so much why don't you marry it" writ large. Discourse, America. We're having it. https://t.co/OCpVeNeM2p

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) March 2, 2018

Slate: *tweets about guns over 100 times in the past week*

Also Slate: WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH GUNS? https://t.co/ggKYtvMwQN

— Charlie Peters (@CDP1882) March 1, 2018

Great, now do liberals who support the second amendment, you self-righteous prick. https://t.co/MB0xudzyPO

— Dead Agent (@Recursion_Agent) March 1, 2018

Just for fun, let’s see what Slate has tweeted recently about guns … since they’re liberals and not obsessed.

A two-guns-per-person limit would protect Americans’ lives and liberty: https://t.co/CtrcvY3yTh pic.twitter.com/ETqWNzYHfG

— Slate (@Slate) October 13, 2017