{"id":29500,"date":"2012-04-13T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29500"},"modified":"2012-04-13T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:22:21","slug":"guns-are-like-shoe-lifts-they-make-you-look-taller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29500","title":{"rendered":"Guns are like shoe lifts – they make you look taller"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Times<\/a> writes about a study funded by the Air Force that reports holding a gun makes men look two inches taller than someone holding a household tool;<\/p>\n

In one round of the experiment involving 628 viewers, the researchers found that men whose hands held a .357-caliber handgun were thought to be almost 5 feet, 10 inches \u2014 more than 2 inches taller than men whose hands held a caulking gun.<\/p>\n

Men with drills were also on the higher end of the height and strength scale \u2014 perhaps because of viewers’ estimates of the strength it would take to hold a drill \u2014 but they were still judged to be about half an inch shorter than the gun toters.<\/p>\n

To make sure the viewers were not simply judging based on the weight of the objects, the researchers ran another test using a paintbrush, a kitchen knife and a squirt gun. Even though for some reason the viewers associated the kitchen knife more with women and the paintbrush more with men, the kitchen knife still made the holder seem bigger and stronger than either the paintbrush or the squirt gun did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, holding a gun in bar to make yourself look taller is called “brandishing” and it’s illegal even in concealed carry states, so you should go with Timberlands or cowboy boots instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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