Cosmo got together with anti-gun "gun guy" Mike Weisser to put together a chart on how their readers should treat a gun owning partner. It's not bad, except for dismissing a dishonorable discharge as nothing big, and of course there's this part on yelling and calling 911 being as effective as pulling a gun to stop a "potential crime."

"He says, "I need to protect myself." If his answer indicates he has bought that gun because he is concerned about personal safety, Weisser says it should give you some pause. Here's why: "There are several responses to a potential crime," Weisser says. "You can run, call 911, or yell your head off. Studies show that these methods are as effective as pulling out a gun. So if this guy is indicating that he needs that gun to prevent him from being attacked, that means that he considers violence a reasonable response."

I'd be curious to see the study.

While I do suspect an alternative motive to the article, those are not bad questions. And the "good talk" end points appear relatively non-judgemental.

Agreed. I do appreciate that the questions that end in good talk tend to indicate, okay, no big deal. I suppose it would be too much to have Cosmo recommend that they go to the shooting range with their partner after the good talk is established.

Hmm, amazing. A flow chart from Cosmo that doesn't end with how to give your lover that mind blowing orgasm.

whitey wrote:Hmm, amazing. A flow chart from Cosmo that doesn't end with how to give your lover that mind blowing orgasm.

AHA! i knew there was a reason i still have my old flowchart template!

I think they just recycled the Venereal Disease flowchart.

It should have been He/She says.

No moral dilemma in going to the range on a first date or am I showing my middle class hang ups?

Dupe.
Cosmopolitan, Everytown/MDA, and the "gunsplainer" campaign

DispositionMatrix wrote:Dupe.
Cosmopolitan, Everytown/MDA, and the "gunsplainer" campaign

Tada, alternative motive.

whitey wrote:Hmm, amazing. A flow chart from Cosmo that doesn't end with how to give your lover that mind blowing orgasm.

Doesn't that happen when you go to the range together?

"...those are signs of a lower risk for (something something)"

Nearly an excellent quote. Not that I have anything against mind blowing orgasms, and the motive for the piece might be shady, the graphic comes out OK for me as far as questions.

CDFingers

Simmer down wrote:No moral dilemma in going to the range on a first date or am I showing my middle class hang ups?

No, you just showing you live in Texas.

Simmer down wrote:No moral dilemma in going to the range on a first date or am I showing my middle class hang ups?

... versus ...

Elmo wrote:

whitey wrote:Hmm, amazing. A flow chart from Cosmo that doesn't end with how to give your lover that mind blowing orgasm.

Doesn't that happen when you go to the range together?

While I have no problem at all with good sex on the first date, I find sex on the shooting range to be not so satisfying as to have mind-blowing orgasms. Don't know why that would be. Perhaps the noise is too distracting? Perhaps the target-change time window is too short?

SoftwareEngineer wrote:

Simmer down wrote:No moral dilemma in going to the range on a first date or am I showing my middle class hang ups?

... versus ...

Elmo wrote:

whitey wrote:Hmm, amazing. A flow chart from Cosmo that doesn't end with how to give your lover that mind blowing orgasm.

Doesn't that happen when you go to the range together?

While I have no problem at all with good sex on the first date, I find sex on the shooting range to be not so satisfying as to have mind-blowing orgasms. Don't know why that would be. Perhaps the noise is too distracting? Perhaps the target-change time window is too short?

Lead exposure would be bad...[emoji23]

‘Is his gun safely stored?’ It has to be kept unloaded and separate from the ammunition.

It's it's in a holster on my body. Now if you get on your knees and use your mouth it will be A LOT more fun trying to find it than if I told you where it was. But watch out, it has a hot load.

“There are several responses to a potential crime… You can run, call 911, or yell your head off.”

Hey, let's play a game! Let me get out my dildo and pretend it's a knife. Then I can pretend to "stab" you while I time the this game. If you are running and are touched by the dildo, you have to fall to the ground and let me stab you with it. Afterwards we can see if the time it takes you to orgasm is faster than the 911 response time from the start of the call to officers on scene.

Btw... if you start yelling your head off shall I use the ball gag or just cover your mouth?

The flowchart is surprisingly... Not bad.

Not that these red flags would necessarily be interpreted as such, there is a lot to be said for the "bad boy" appeal. I've known girls where the boyfriend was currently in jail (one was for illegally owning a gun) and it does not appear to deter them... Quite the opposite.


However the idea that yelling is just as effective as a gun is pure bullshit.

From the CDC 2014 meta-analysis commissioned by Obama: "Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive use of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening a defender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies."