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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
This is exactly the kind of "woke" virtue signaling to which I was referring. Play the race card any time anyone even attempts to start a dispassionate discussion on this matter.......
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Yeah woke, virtue signal, race card, all the cute buzzwords. Am I the one that brought race into the discussion?
Be honest, you're not as concerned about black lives, youths, etc. as you are about optics, You just want to make sure that the optics show white gun owner equals responsible gun owner and black gun owner equals irresponsible gun owner. You want to make sure to frame the discussion in a racial context to incriminate the race and exonerate the weapon. IOW, please oh please please please don't put any restrictions MY toys just because some other race kills people with them!
Am I correct?
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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
And therein lies the problem with far too many people. Color is a factor in this whole "gun violence" problem and, to be brutally honest, it is statistically one of the most important factors.
Understanding and acknowledging all of the factors contributing to any problem is the very first step in solving that problem. Ignoring any contributing factors for any reason, be they religious, political, or whatever dooms any "solution" to failure. We have now suffered generations of failure in our attempts to solve this particular problem, in a large part because it is taboo in certain circles to discuss one of the most glaring contributing factors.
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