Special Interest Groups

[tongodeon]

crisper asked how conservatives would react if Barack Obama started pushing an anti-abortion legislation package or a radical roll-back of gun control. He thinks they might turn it into a right-wing scare about arming minorities and encouraging them to breed. I've got an even more cynical theory. I don't think it would change anything at all

Comments

[mister_borogove]

...for having personal preferences which allegedly "endorse" or "favor" gun restriction...

I think you misspelled "being black and a Democrat."

[ikkyu2]

Actually, there are a lot of stereotypes about black American people, but their not being in favor of gun ownership isn't exactly one of them. If anything, there is a stereotype about young black men owning a lot of guns and using them too freely.

[tongodeon]

I was once talking to someone who was citing a study about young black men who do, per capita, own a lot of guns and use them too freely. He was saying that if they're going to confiscate anyone's guns, they should confiscate the guns of young black men.

I pointed out that the same study showed that this trend decreased rapidly by age. Young black men used their guns more freely than young white men, but by the time you get to late middle age it's old white men who use their guns more freely than old black men. I suggested that we could perhaps improve the plan by confiscating young black men's guns, give them to young white men, and then when they get to middle age confiscate the guns and give them back to the now-middle-aged black people. As a middle aged white man he didn't seem to think this sounded like a good idea.

[tensegritydan]

Why isn't this a scene in a sitcom?!

I am thinking Archie Bunker vs. Meathead.

[mister_borogove]

Sure, but I'm not saying that "endorses gun restriction" is synonymous with "being black" or "being a black Democrat". I'm saying that on the whole the NRA identifies with the White Republican Tribe, and they know that Obama's part of the other tribe, and that's all they need to know.