Guns are white supremacy’s deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate.

The Washington Post ^ | January 31, 2021 | Sharon Risher

[Trump20162020]

The defining photograph of the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 was that of a man strolling through the broken halls of our national Capitol, amid the smashed windows and assorted rubble of the failed coup, proudly brandishing a Confederate flag on his shoulder and hoping to overturn an election decided largely by Black voters. It’s an image that tells the story not only of Jan. 6 or of the Trump presidency, but also of all the steps that led to that moment — the whole history of hate in America captured in one frame.

This deadly connection between white supremacy and guns runs throughout our history. In 1866, armed Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. In 1898, an armed White mob in Wilmington, N.C., proclaimed a “White Declaration of Independence,” then killed at least 60 residents before replacing the multiracial local government with white supremacists. In 1921, mobs of armed White residents of Tulsa attacked the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, murdering as many as 300 Tulsans for the crime of being Black and successful. In 1955, ­Emmett Till was tortured and shot in the head by White vigilantes. And today, mass shootings – from the church in Charleston to the supermarket in El Paso to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. — have been committed by white supremacists filled with hate and armed with a gun.

Simply put, if the Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white-supremacist hate, the gun is its deadliest weapon.

[Trump20162020]

[Responsibility2nd]

I must object here. Strenuously object. My guns have never hated anyone or anything. Ever.

[EdgeOfDarkness]

Bait!

[Hambone 1934]

Ex-mayor of NYC,Mike Bloomberg stated a few years ago that crime would go down considerably if we took guns away from black males 15-25....

[facedown]

Molon labe.

[Responsibility2nd]

Simply put, if the Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white-supremacist hate, the gun is its deadliest weapon.

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I thought the noose was our deadliest weapon. A noose at NASCAR races, right?

This article is such a joke. So full of lies. It’s amusing to see their hatred and bigotry on display. They just go absolutely bat bleep crazy.

[rktman]

Here’s a link to HR 127:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/127/text?fbclid=IwAR021QhDyjQxsAkCompDi7WIVRvTYlzxnCMhNemtRnQoHmuK-mkA4ORNETs

[Still Thinking]

Oh please. If the Com[mie]post accidentally printed something true, and they found out about it, they’d print a retraction.

[Still Thinking]

Uh, rust!

[EEGator]

What don’t black women know?

[Responsibility2nd]

This deadly connection between white supremacy and guns runs throughout our history. In 1866, armed Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. In 1898, an armed White mob in Wilmington, N.C., proclaimed a “White Declaration of Independence,” then killed at least 60 residents before replacing the multiracial local government with white supremacists. In 1921, mobs of armed White residents of Tulsa attacked the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, murdering as many as 300 Tulsans for the crime of being Black and successful. In 1955, ­Emmett Till was tortured and shot in the head by White vigilantes. And today, mass shootings – from the church in Charleston to the supermarket in El Paso to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. — have been committed by white supremacists filled with hate and armed with a gun

This is quite a history lesson this little girl has related to us. If only she would tell us which political party was involved in all of these atrocities.

[W.]

What, WaPo, no bloody shirt to wave around? That’s a shame!

[VeniVidiVici]

Author doesn’t mention that these were all Democrat attacks

[HighSierra5]

That guy with the Confederate battle flag played right into the Commies agenda. That being said come and try to take my guns you Communist pigs!

[Captain Peter Blood]

When will certain areas of Chicago be disarmed and how??????????/

[JoSixChip]

This is what incitement looks like.

[pierrem15]

ecause if we do not come together around this issue now, in the weeks after our very democracy was held at gunpoint, then I fear that hate-motivated gun violence will not only continue but also accelerate.

Nothing would guarantee a lot of political violence more than His Fraudulency's gun confiscation agenda.

[BipolarBob]

Chicago!! That must be where all of the White Supremacists are hiding. I seem to remember they have an extreme murder rate.

[blueplum]

how was this election decided ‘mostly by black voters’ seeing how they are now third on the totum pole in political influence?

And is the false belief that ‘black voters’ decided the election the reason that no white savior judges would listen to evidence of fraud?

[mrsmel]

Statistics show that most gun violence is committed by black males. The white man made ‘em do it? Just like the inanimate gun, until utilised by the human, made ‘em do it? And people are supposed to consider them equal when everything they do, at least every negative thing, is propelled by outside forces-most usually white people, but sometimes other races, and even inanimate objects? (But every achievement, no matter how trivial, is due to their superior will to overcome all the forces of the universe arrayed against them. Puke!)