<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><font size="2">Not a surprising reaction from some points of view. Dan Kahan, professor at the Yale Law School studies risk perception. In a paper in 2007, he wrote:</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="2"><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In the United States, guns enable largely hierarchical roles such as father, protector, and provider, and symbolise hierarchical virtues such as honour and courage. Within hierarchical ways of life, moreover, these are
roles and virtues distinctive of men, not women, who again occupy roles that don't feature gun use. These roles and virtues are also largely associated with being a white male, in large part because of the historical association of guns with maintenance of racial hierarchy in the South. On this account, then, we should expect white hierarchical males to </em><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">be much more invested in gun possession, and thus to be impelled much more forcefully by identity-protective cognition to resist the claim that guns are dangerous and that gun ownership should be restricted. And this is again exactly what we did find in our national study.</em><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="2"><em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height:
19px;"><br></em></font></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Opening the direct combat role to women threatens the self-perception of males who base their identity on hierarchical roles.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font
size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:04 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Hmmm . . .<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv393784600"><div><div><img src="cid:1.2160996431@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" alt="image.jpeg" id="yiv3937846005CFC43EA-198E-4962-A336-83C9F1AF46FF" width="506" height="309"></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div>http://www.MoscowCares.com</div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style=""><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="">- John
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