Posted on 02/02/2016 7:25:28 AM PST by rktman
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."-Mark Twain
Canada's leading newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and The National Post, recently gave sympathetic reviews to a book by A.J. Somerset that portrayed American gun culture as racist and paranoid. In his book, Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun, Somerset's approach to American gun culture is to search for what he calls "the Wellspring of Crazy." As he says, "This is the gun culture I am after in this book: the weird stuff." Somerset dissects movie dialogues and relates juicy newspaper stories to paint a picture of Americans as driven by unreasonable fears to buy guns, or worse, as merely using their fear to excuse racist violence. He claims he is searching for cultural myths but his approach seems more like an excuse to rant than a serious attempt to understand actual cultural norms.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Obviously, Mr. Somerset isn't familiar with this country's current race down the superhighway towards communism and away from freedom. What a jerk.
Actually real American gun culture is the probably the least racist part of our society. Where else do you see people of all races in complete trust of each other than at your typical gun range. I myself feel more of an affinity for the African American guy in the next stall over with a 1911 in his hand than for any white liberal Hillary supporter.
Yup....so paranoid Canucks stay away. We’re armed and dangerous!!!
Is it paranoia if there really are dead-soul thuggery out to get you if they can? I carry every day because I seldom see a cop and never when one is needed.
It's sad our neighbor to the north assimilated into British culture and share the same Monarchy that we broke from.
Liberals would rather us all trust gov’t and the general population for our families protection from evil.
Anybody who dares to individually take personal responsibility to do this is “paranoid” and “racist”.
Canada Free Press is the only voice of sanity in Canuckistan. They must feel like Charlie Hebdo in a sea of Trudeaumaniacs.
Been to Canada once. Canadians with American accents are perfectly OK, but as a Yank in Ottawa, I was very much in a foreign, European city, complete with teeming Muslim quarter that a wrong turn got me into. Got out fast.
For some reason the streets of Ottawa filled with cars bearing “Je me souviens” plates from Quebec. Even more foreign.
Anyway, Canadians aren’t nearly as antigun as the Brits, who proudly boast that they don’t need & have never needed guns in order to feel safe. Bully for them.
All of my life we have been fighting the gun grabbers, from back when you could still mail order a firearm.
Considering that is over half a century or fighting people who want to take my guns away, I would say there is nothing "baseless" in the feelings of persecution.
You aren't "paranoid" if someone, correctly identified, is really out to get you.
As for racism, I am an equal opportunity self-defender. Come at me with a weapon and credible malicious intent and I will shoot your ass, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, nation of origin, gender, sexual orientation, and whatever else you might think you can whine about.
By the grip, looks like a Glock.
That picture screams Liberty.
Actually, I would submit that it’s gun control that is racist and paranoid. Historically speaking, at its very roots the earliest gun control laws (also promulgated by Democrats) were designed to prevent freed slaves from obtaining weapons that they could use against their former masters. Sounds rather like the attitude of our current government and the left (but I repeat myself) doesn’t it?
But so what?
Most of the casual shootings are minorities shooting other minorities. That can’t be racist, can it?
Bully, indeed...And they have short memories...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/650257/posts
Next time, just say NO!
Black Lives Matter is racist and paranoid. I'm sure some of them have guns.
Say, do you suppose that he’s totin’ a CMP M1 carbine in this photo? With taped 10+ round magazines too.
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