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Gun Control & RKBA

sarisataka

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5. What I wonder is what part was more offensive

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 11:48 AM

Dec 2020

The article about how POC have been responsivle for a significant percentage of the recent increase in gun sales or the pointing out the inconvenient fact of that racism has historically been the foundation of most gun control laws.

That tacit racism is still present, from the promotion of stop and frisk laws, which overwhelmingly target POC, to the oft repeated 'if blacks open carried like whites we would see gun control laws passed.' While some may pay lip service to equality, the most zealous of gun control proponents are happy to embrace that racism with a the-end-justifies-the-means attitude. Ironically they rarely, if ever, examine what that end looks like and if it is actually an improvement.

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Black And Up In Arms [View all] friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 OP

thank you for this llashram Dec 2020 #1

Interesting that this was alerted... sarisataka Dec 2020 #2

I'm not surprised at that- it doesn't fit The Narrative friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #4

What I wonder is what part was more offensive sarisataka Dec 2020 #5

I think it was the well-deserved slap at Bloomberg and some of his followers friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #6

Cool The Mouth Dec 2020 #3