New York Times article on minority gun owners

[RPRNY]

Now this is the New York Times we all know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/opinion/legislating-ignorance-about-guns.html

"Such data could upend the notion that guns are necessary for personal safety."

I'm for compromise. I'd be willing to fund CDC research on violence with guns, provided an equal sum is spent on discovering the pathology and disease vector of Liberalism and related mental illness.

 

[Indigo22]

Yup, good article. Responsible gun owners can be found everywhere.

 

[NoirFan]

Having seen evidence in the 60's of what happens when black men did go about armed (broadly labeled terrorists, savaged in media, laws immediately passed to restrict their behavior in conjunction with police harassment ever since), I can understand the black community's reticence in getting back into the shooting game. An awful lot of people here would be pretty freaked out by black gun rights organizations half as militant as we accept (though may not welcome) on our side. And that's not even getting into the whole guns-connoted-with-crime, stop and frisk, illegal possession, and flat out discrimination/racism aspects of the question (which are reflexive syndromes of the gun-repressed conditions many black Americans live under daily in cities rather than a cause for those conditions, though they do reinforce that state of being)

Best paragraph in the thread. I don't think I've ever seen this kind of consideration and empathy on a gun forum.

 

[Sol]

Racial, religious, political, and sexual orientation minorities have more reason to own guns than than do most.

Forced internments, detentions, lynchings, pogroms and genocides are carried out by majorities, after all.

There are those still living in this country who set attack dogs on the Civil Rights movement protest marches, who burned crosses on lawns. They are the same people who defend the internment of American citizens during WWII, who have no problem supporting racial detentions in current and future wars. This is a big part of why I own guns.

Yes, some of the individuals who carried out these acts are still alive.

This only supports 2A even more. You can't look at the individuals who did these things, but you can look at the uniform of those who did. With the exception of lynchings and the KKK, our own government was behind most of this.

It kills me when the media swoops in like vultures after a school shooting, and they cry for gun control.

After all, the only school shooting I've ever known of or learned about was Kent State.

Then columbine happened.