America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery

The Guardian ^ | 4 June 2021 | Carol Anderson

[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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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

[blam]

"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.

[IYAS9YAS]

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

[redfreedom]

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.

[trailboss800]

Ah..No!

[Uncle Miltie]

Murder is black on black in America.

[Mr. Jeeves]

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.

[BusterDog]

American slavery to King George III.

[Robert DeLong]

No it is our rights as per the Constitution.

[gundog]

...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.

[castlebrew]

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

[euram]

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.

[gundog]

In the very near future, I can see nearly every college thesis being a convoluted attempt to link something to slavery or racism.

[MHGinTN]

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

[spincaster]

Who wrote this dribble?

[JerseyDvl]

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

[odawg]

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

[kiryandil]

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.

[kiryandil]

Trump’s fault.

[EastTexasTraveler]

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.