A followup to yesterday’s mystifying story about gun enthusiasts posting photos of themselves with unsaftied guns jammed into their own crotches, fingers on the triggers.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#youll-shoot-your-eye-out

It turns out that the origin of this is not “owning the libs” - it’s “owning responsible gun owners.”

Writing in Motherboard, Matthew Gault traces the origin to a battle between “Normies” (regular gun owners) and “Fudds” (compulsive musketfuckers).

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7q83v/heres-why-men-are-pointing-loaded-guns-at-their-dicks

The issue apparently stems from resentment at the reification of “trigger discipline” (not putting your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot) and “muzzle discipline” (not pointing your gun at things you don’t intend to shoot).

Normies elevate these practices to a virtue, and routinely praise or condemn other gun owners’ pistol-selfies for their adherence (or lack thereof) to this standard.

To express their resentment, Fudds began photographing themselves with their pistols jammed into their crotches, fingers on the triggers, safety off. So yes, nothing to do with “triggering libs” and everything to do with “triggering normies.”

“Pointing a gun at your own dick” is normie shorthand for the kind of idiotic thing a Fudd might do, so the Fudds concretized the metaphor, by pointing their guns at their own dicks.

But, as Gault points out: “When you ironically point a gun at your dick, you’re still pointing a gun at your dick.”