Over on Military Photos dot net, somebody posted a link to a CNN story about guns and race. The post drew several comments. I thought this one was especially good.
This all too typical sloppy analysis where people try and explain cultural phenomena by working backwards from the current situation motivated by political bias. It’s stupid, lazy, ignorant and wrong.I do wonder about "the current Black crime wave". It's not a problem where I live. I suppose there could be places where such a thing is happening. Or maybe it's just a state of mind for some people.
North America has a gun culture thanks to its history and from well before there were any significant number of Blacks in North America. The Europeans who settled North America faced a 300 year long war on their frontier with well-armed and belligerent native tribes. They also settled a wide frontier over centuries with little or no effective law and order structure requiring self protection and self enforcements of laws. They also fought four major wars in North America between 1756 and 1864 amongst themselves and with external European powers.
The gun culture was well established and embedded in the American psyche well before the slaves were freed, Jim Crow, civil rights and the current Black crime wave. - Shelldraken
Robert Williams fled the country (1961) to escape prosecution on charges he believed to be false. When he eventually returned to the USA, he was arrested and brought to trial, whereupon the state of North Caroline dropped the charges. Huh. Imagine that.
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