I don’t need one either but you would have a hard time taking mine away.

Tim Knowles
Feb 25, 2017 · 2 min read

It was a good story and not without some merit, especially parts about Congress and Hypocrisy. I am too libertarian to want more laws or restrictions on anyone.

I would like to discuss “our phallic attachment to things that shoot is a dangerous part of our toxic masculinity” I am a man, rocket designer and love things that fly or go bang and better if they do both. Gun more phallic than a Rocket, think not! I am sure you are smart enough that you know that this fragment of a sentence would be offensive to many men. “Toxic Masculinity” well I have my Toxic Masculinity under control. I am going to excuse you because I am pretty sure that you are not a Man and don’t really understand what is right and wrong with some Men. It would also take a book to really explain but it would not be the first book I would right so maybe you could find one by someone else. What you perceive as Toxic Masculinity is actually just that lack of self control many people (women and men) have when in a situation where they could have what they want because of power, position or physical strength regardless of right or wrong and they will take what they want.

What you have labelled is Evil, you are calling it the wrong name and making it a Male problem. You are reinforcing a dangerous stereotype that could contribute to more of the Evil you hate. So many of us are raising the next generation of Men and if you go saying they are doomed by their hormones you undermine us. If you are talking about a Toxic Machismo Culture, then we can talk but that is not a Phallic and shooting thing. The difference is in self control vs. control of women.

TEK

Tim Knowles

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Worked in our nations space programs for more than 35 years