In a recent appearance on the Daily Show, humorist David Sedaris said that based on informal surveys at his book signings, 80% of men with beards had fathers who owned guns.
So let’s test his hypothesis. This poll is primarily for guys, but you girls can answer if your father owns a gun; I’ll take the high road and assume you don’t have beards.
Have a beard, but my dad did not own a gun. However, he did give me guns, like a 1873 Trapdoor Springfield, Type 99 Arisaka, and others.
[Forty years later, I still miss that trapdoor, which I loaned to a buddy who did old west reenactments, but died suddenly of a heart attack and his widow left the area with all his stuff, including my rifle, to parts unknown. Sigh.]
No beard (why would I want to hide such a face?) and I don’t count my dad as owning a gun. He does have a shotgun that he last used probably 50 years ago.
Bearded since early 20’s. My dad owned a pair of shotguns when I was very little but hadn’t hunted in years and sold them sometime before I was 5 or 6 - so “no gun.”
This is a pretty weird question unless you’re trying to sniff out hillbillies.
I have a beard and so has my brother and our father owned a shotgun, but I can not remember him using it on more than one occasion. He went duck hunting with a friend and came back with a coot.
If you watch the clip, it was funny in context. He expressed no conclusion about either guns or beards, only that they seem to correlate with fathers. I think Sedaris is one of the funniest people on the planet, so maybe it’s just me.
Yes, and alcoholics can’t so much as be in the same room with an ethanol molecule. Says right here.
I don’t consider my dad to be a gun owner because he (and my mother) owned a pair of duck guns in the mid-1950s. Neither ever owned so much as a BB gun otherwise. He didn’t grow up with guns. He did his time in WWII and had a good friend who was crazy about bird hunting, so he spent a couple of years trying it.
I’m sure anyone indoctrinated by the NRA would firmly declare him to be a “gun owner,” but that’s like “alcoholics” who haven’t touched booze since a few beer parties in college - self-serving BS.
Sorry for thinking “too much” - I mean, at all, here.
I don’t think this question is so strange. There are many style and grooming preferences that happen to correlate with certain social views and personality traits, some of which may influence those of your children. Certainly it currently looks from the poll results that there might be something going on here, although of course to definitively establish a link, a more stringent survey methodology would be necessary.
Also, the link is probably stronger between guys who own guns and whose fathers had beards.