This is just more Y’allQueda declaring YeeHawd bullshit. The most galling part is the double standard. If these guys were any other race standing in front of a campaign office visibly armed...
On a shallower note, the more I look at the photo, the more the guy on the right (gray shirt) looks like James Van Der Beek.
And ia if this was a brown or black person they wouldn't have been left standing there. :( like even if it didn't take the most tragic route. I'm sure police would habe told them to leave despite open carry.
I always joke with my brother we won't change gun laws unless black and brown people start getting guns en masse.
I always joke with my brother we won't change gun laws unless black and brown people start getting guns en masse.
That is absolutely true. When Reagan was gov of California, he leveraged white people's fear of the Black Panthers arming themselves to pass the Mulford Act.
It's curious to me, the juxtaposition between that and contemporary reaction to events like the San Bernardino shooting or the question of whether or not to ban people on No Fly lists from owning guns. Fear of Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslims) arming themselves seem to result more in a "we just need to have more guns than them" response. Maybe because hard line second amendment advocates have painted themselves into a corner as far as never being able to lose any ground on gun rights no matter what.
Definitely. I think I heard the Black Panthers arming themselves is what radicalized the NRA in the first place. The Second Amendment is propped up by racist fears.
It's jarring to see someone out in public, in the city/suburbs with a gun. Just because. It makes sense to me out in the mountains or desert, but other than that it's just asking for trouble.
I worked in a very gun-friendly store (there was a fucking nra...thing on the wall) and I could never understand the people who came in armed to the teeth. it's a store in Suburbia, not the wild fucking west. clearly they have insecurities.
Or the bubba and bubette that were having dinner at the Cracker Barrel my husband and I go to twice a month who felt the need to have their guns as conspicuously displayed on their persons as possible. Dude, it's a fucking Cracker Barrel. If you feel that intimidated by your wait staff, you need help.
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On a shallower note, the more I look at the photo, the more the guy on the right (gray shirt) looks like James Van Der Beek.
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And ia if this was a brown or black person they wouldn't have been left standing there. :( like even if it didn't take the most tragic route. I'm sure police would habe told them to leave despite open carry.
I always joke with my brother we won't change gun laws unless black and brown people start getting guns en masse.
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That is absolutely true. When Reagan was gov of California, he leveraged white people's fear of the Black Panthers arming themselves to pass the Mulford Act.
It's curious to me, the juxtaposition between that and contemporary reaction to events like the San Bernardino shooting or the question of whether or not to ban people on No Fly lists from owning guns. Fear of Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslims) arming themselves seem to result more in a "we just need to have more guns than them" response. Maybe because hard line second amendment advocates have painted themselves into a corner as far as never being able to lose any ground on gun rights no matter what.
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