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Does race shape Americans' passion for guns?
CNN ^ | Oct. 10, 2014 | John Blake

Posted on 10/11/2014 10:23:22 AM PDT by PROCON

CNN) -- Here's a thought experiment:

What if large groups of African-American men carrying shotguns and semi-automatic rifles started moseying into stores across America to tout their support of open-carry gun laws?

Would they be greeted by the same anxious looks shoppers gave groups of armed white men who did the same this summer at Target stores and chain restaurants like Chipotle? Or something more lethal?

For Charles Gallagher, a sociologist who studies race, the answer to that "what if" is easy.

"Whites walking down Main Street with an AK-47 are defenders of American values; a black man doing the same thing is Public Enemy No. 1," says Gallagher, a professor at La Salle University in Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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To: TalBlack
Yup


41 posted on 10/11/2014 12:13:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They closed the comments. Must not have been going their way.

Heh! I was just gong to head over there. So typical.
42 posted on 10/11/2014 12:23:21 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Molon Labbie

No one should ever think that black folks can’t get firearms. They get them from whites. Straw purchases, burglaries, etc.

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In Arizona they buy them from gun shops, shows, and one another. Just like everyone else.


43 posted on 10/11/2014 2:54:48 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: PROCON

WARNING!!! THE FOLLOWING IS A VERY —BASE— ANSWER RETORT TO A PINHEAD, WHO SHOULD BE A MEATHEAD:

In the words of armchair psychologist Archie Bunker:

“It ain’t been no Polock, Wop, Kyke, Spic, Injun, or Chink, d’at’s been in dah street, since d’is here darkie made it to President! So, go figure!”

Now, from me, to the pinheaded meathead, I’m a half-breed Mojave, who heard the words of MLK on my eight transistor radio during one of my ‘study halls’ in high school, and — I — am appalled at the Negro-evoked racism that multiplied with the immaculation of one Soetero-Obama.


44 posted on 10/11/2014 3:41:03 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: PROCON
One question CNN will never answer: Who were the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and why do groups like Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership and Gun Owners of America, and pro-RKBA authors like John Ross and Mike Vanderboegh talk positively about them?

And why, pray tell, were multiple gun rights organizations this week cheering the destruction of Durham, NC's racist gun registry?

The truth is, most American gun owners support blacks owning guns and being responsible citizens with them. It's the last part of that sentence that is the problem, as many blacks are raised by the state and taught to be irresponsible for everything they do.

45 posted on 10/11/2014 7:30:14 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: PROCON
Does race shape Americans' passion for guns?

Does insecurity shape journalists' passion for race?

Why, after all these years and now Americans having twice elected what appears to be a black man for POTUS, are some of US still so ef'ing fixated on appearances like "race"?!?!?

It's almost like they're proud of making US see race in everything, like it's a product they've created and are trying to market and sell, but it's constantly losing market share and always needs more promotion.

46 posted on 10/12/2014 11:05:35 AM PDT by GBA (Hick with a keyboard)
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