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America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery
The Guardian ^ | 4 June 2021 | Carol Anderson

Posted on 06/07/2021 5:50:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective response, even in the wake of multiple mass shootings, is, unfortunately, rooted in the other pandemic gripping the United States: anti-Blackness and the sense that African Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed white citizenry.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; blackonblackcrime; carolanderson; heyjackass
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To: artichokegrower

The Brits have never understood RKBA.
The author of this piece has it backward...


41 posted on 06/07/2021 6:30:09 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: COBOL2Java
"I did a double-take this morning listening to the ABC Radio lead-off. The announcer intoned quite seriously: “The pandemic is ending, and once again Americans are shooting each other”."

It'd be racist to note that the gun violence is mostly Black on Black.

42 posted on 06/07/2021 6:33:21 AM PDT by blam
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To: artichokegrower

No. But the gun-control being pushed today certainly is.


43 posted on 06/07/2021 6:38:19 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rb22982

There’s a segment out there that believes anything the left publishes. They watch CNN and memorize the talking points so they have ammunition for arguments.

Such mindless wonders are what the article is for.

They have no idea just how stupid they look to normal people.


44 posted on 06/07/2021 6:39:34 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: artichokegrower

Ah..No!


45 posted on 06/07/2021 6:39:36 AM PDT by trailboss800
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To: artichokegrower

Murder is black on black in America.


46 posted on 06/07/2021 6:49:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'm changing my name to 'Spike Protein'!)
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To: artichokegrower
Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment..

It appears they are piling up all over the Great Society, if one actually looks closely.

47 posted on 06/07/2021 6:51:29 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: artichokegrower

American slavery to King George III.


48 posted on 06/07/2021 6:55:04 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: artichokegrower

No it is our rights as per the Constitution.


49 posted on 06/07/2021 6:57:11 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: rb22982
...white insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol, injured 140 police officers, built a gallows to “hang Mike Pence” and hunted for Nancy Pelosi...

If she believes this, she’ll believe anything.

50 posted on 06/07/2021 7:01:25 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: artichokegrower

People with no guaranteed right to the means to keep a tyrannical government in check have no business saying anything to those who do.


51 posted on 06/07/2021 7:01:35 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: artichokegrower

The “plague of gun violence”

doesn’t exist, what we have is a plague of black violence, but too few are willing to point to the real problem. The best predictor of how safe or unsafe any place is, is the percentage of blacks living there.


52 posted on 06/07/2021 7:01:49 AM PDT by euram
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To: ConservativeInPA
In the very near future, I can see nearly every college thesis being a convoluted attempt to link something to slavery or racism.
53 posted on 06/07/2021 7:04:51 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: KC_Lion

Satan has all manner of servant makes and models. Carol Anderson is just one of the variations.


54 posted on 06/07/2021 7:07:41 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: KC_Lion

Who wrote this dribble?


55 posted on 06/07/2021 7:13:41 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: artichokegrower

We’ve gone from “Everyone who disagrees with me is Hitler” to “Everyone who disagrees with me is a white supremacist”.


56 posted on 06/07/2021 7:22:15 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: artichokegrower

So now, the 2nd Amendment is now racism. And, if you own a gun, and you are white, you are racist.


57 posted on 06/07/2021 7:23:35 AM PDT by odawg
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To: artichokegrower
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.

Dump her off in the South Side of Chicago at 3 in the morning.

58 posted on 06/07/2021 7:31:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: pas

Trump’s fault.


59 posted on 06/07/2021 7:32:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: artichokegrower

What an idiot. You cannot even argue with people that are this stupid. If the writers for the Guardian think things are so great where citizens are disarmed, I dare them to go walking on the streets of London alone at night.


60 posted on 06/07/2021 7:34:03 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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