Does race shape Americans' passion for guns?

CNN ^ | Oct. 10, 2014 | John Blake

[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.

[PROCON]

Liberals are obsessed with race, the true racists.

MLK Jr. would be rolling in his grave if he observed the state of race relations in America today.

[Slyfox]

The need to protect our freedoms from tyrants presupposes any racial considerations.

[ClearCase_guy]

Race shapes Global Warming because Koch Brothers.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Does race shape Americans’ passion for guns?”

Nope. Only protecting ourselves from street thugs and tyrants.

[Bryanw92]

If their dress and demeanor says, “I’m an honest citizen who works for a living and thinks that his family and way of life is worth defending”, then I don’t care what color they are.

On the other hand, if they dress like a thug and act like one, then I would be equally suspicious of a white guy with a gun as I would a black man.

Blacks bring a lot of this on themselves by trying to appear “dangerous” in their outward appearance as part of the thug culture.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Race shapes Global Warming because Koch Brothers.”

ROFLMAO!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

How about us short, white, middle-aged wimins? Can we tote out AK47s down Main Street, fearless as we are?

Whatcha gonna call ME, Mr. Panties-in-a-wad Liberal?

What a bunch of maroons.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They closed the comments. Must not have been going their way.

[blackdog]

"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,"

And the New Orleans police department was exactly that, the black man walking down the street with AK-47's, and look where that took the black community?

[Dick Bachert]

A simple analysis of the current crime to race stats will tell anyone with half a brain (libs don’t have that much) that there would — and should — be a reasonable elevation of alarm.

As soon as the majority of decent, God fearing and responsible black folks stop tolerating the crime and violence within their communities, America may have a shot at becoming a legitimately “post-racial” society.

Sadly, the left and their family destroying “welfare” system designed to keep blacks on the Democrat “plantation” will do all they can to see that that never happens.

[PROCON]

They closed the comments. Must not have been going their way.

Good catch.

[kjam22]

Blacks bring a lot of this on themselves by trying to appear “dangerous” in their outward appearance as part of the thug culture.

Can't say it much better than that....

[corlorde]

"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,"

What he means to say is, the only thing that scares liberals more than a black man walking down the street is a free black man walking down the street exercising his right to a firearm.

[Morpheus2009]

Didn’t Pulp Fiction do enough for that already?

[Vaquero]

Does race shape Americans’ passion for guns? CNN

Gag!! BARF!!!!

[PROCON]

EGADS Man! Is that an assault rifle on your homepage?/s

[TalBlack]

Yawn.

It happened back in the early ‘70’s.

I had no problem then with an armed society and I have none today.

[mountn man]

Does race shape Americans' passion for guns?

NOPE!

[Dead Corpse]

Just... No.

http://youtu.be/63GiXzpfGhA

And then there’s Alan West, Colion Noir, etc...

[FredZarguna]

You forgot Bush.