>>That still leaves unanswered the question as to why guys
are drawn to guns in the first place.
Where I grew up, they closed all the schools on the day deer
season started. I began to learn how to take care of a .22
rifle and fire it when I was about ten years old, maybe
earlier. It was expected male activity, as much a part of
the rite of passage to adulthood as getting your learner's
permit to drive a car.
For kids, there's a great thrill of power in being able to
hit a target set up fifty yards away. But when you're used
to guns they're like old tools. They have to be cleaned and
stored properly. It's like owning a fancy lawnmower and has
about as much phallic oomph.
Do remember firing a Walther P-38 when I was a kid. It was a
friend's father's war trophy and had the Nazi insignia on
the butt of the grip. Nasty recoil. Too much gun for a
little kid. Didn't really have much of a testosterone level
at the time, so can't comment on the hormonal part of it.
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