That’s racist
The Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann wants to disarm blacks:
Successful efforts to reduce America’s black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms.
That was the point of gun control from the beginning.
Via TP, who notes:
Since over 90% of African Americans murdered are murdered by other African Americans, Sugarmann’s best idea is to return to the days when laws disarming blacks was the norm.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Allow me to kindly refer you to this post:
https://www.saysuncle.com/2010/01/14/understanding-racism/
Clearly NOT RACIST
January 27th, 2010 at 11:58 am
That makes about as much sense as arguing that young black men shouldn’t be allowed to be near each other. Heck, it’d probably be easier to enforce. Next we’ll ban machetes, then all knives, then sticks, pause for a moment to have a cuppa and hail the Queen, then possibly lock up people who make mean faces at each other.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I go to links such as the ones in this post hoping to see some new perspective on anti-gun-rights or pro-gun-rights or any new thought. I am uniformly disappointed, and have been for several years. I think the arguments reached a peak of perfection back before the Heller v. DC Supreme Court decision, and there has been zero development of new or existing arguments since then.
One can push gun control by denying that self defense is a human right, if one wishes to deny essentially all human rights in the subsequent and very necessary logical analysis of that position.
One can deny data demonstrating the efficacy of guns for self defense, from numerous credible sources, and from numerous forums of peer review, if one wishes to espouse one’s own feeeeeelings on gun control. This usually occurs while one is dancing in the blood of a highly publicized firearm-related death.
One can lie outright to promote one’s position.
Other than these three essentials there has been nothing new from the anti-gun-rights crowd for years and years.
So good luck to them with that as their arsenal for promoting restrictions of rights.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
there can only be one
January 27th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
“Since over 90% of African Americans murdered are murdered by other African Americans, Sugarmann’s best idea is to return to the days when laws disarming blacks was the norm.”
So, they plan to make it illegal for AAs to have guns? Why don’t they just cut to the chase and make murder illegal? Oh, it already is illegal? (damn!) Well, maybe they should pass a law banning crime? Or make murder double plus illegaler. I’m sure it’ll be just as effective, and it has the added bonus of not interfering with existing constitutional amendments.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Amazingly there are a great many blacks eager to return to the plantation. Go figure.