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In reply to the discussion: The whole gun regulation debate come down to 3 words, white male privilege [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)194. Gun ownership is a greater predictor of political party more than many other demographics
Nate Silver, of course.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/in-gun-ownership-statistics-partisan-divide-is-sharp/
But the odds vary significantly based on the political identity of the childs parents. If they identify as Democratic voters, the chances are only about one in four, or 25 percent, that they have a gun in their home. But the chances are more than twice that, almost 60 percent, if they are Republicans.
Whether someone owns a gun is a more powerful predictor of a persons political party than her gender, whether she identifies as gay or lesbian, whether she is Hispanic, whether she lives in the South or a number of other demographic characteristics.
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Gun ownership has declined over the past 40 years but almost all of the decrease has come from Democrats. By 2010, according to the General Social Survey, the gun ownership rate among adults that identified as Democrats had fallen to 22 percent. It remained at about 50 percent among Republican adults.
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The whole gun regulation debate come down to 3 words, white male privilege [View all]
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
OP
Oh Bullshit. Please stop it. It's racist to try to attach gun rights to caucasian people.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#1
The gun lobby's newfound embrace of minorities is as forced and awkward as the Republicans
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#9
Good lord! I never saw this before. Charlton is more of a crackpot than I thought!
Squinch
Jan 2013
#13
Then there's the NRA/ALEC "stand your ground" law that works so well on black teenagers
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#40
Just google "NRA comic book" if you want to see gun lobby/NRA/ALEC racial fear mongering
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#54
That article doesn't refute the OP though. It says that homicides in Stand your Ground states
Squinch
Jan 2013
#93
The OP is casting a decidedly race-based set of conclusions upon an otherwise color-free discussion.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#12
I don't see anywhere where you posted any polls or studies, that makes your post
rl6214
Jan 2013
#79
Gun ownership is a greater predictor of political party more than many other demographics
kwassa
Jan 2013
#194
Pointing out the variable of party affiliation, and to look at gender and race that Creek Dog ...
kwassa
Jan 2013
#196
Did you read the Charlton Heston quote. How could this discusssion possibly be "color free"?
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#202
How on earth is throwing out the term "white male privilege" a conversationally productive thing?
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#14
Are you suggesting there is no such thing as white male privilege in the US? n/t
Sekhmets Daughter
Jan 2013
#157
Why is that there can be endless conversations about "what's wrong with black people"
Number23
Jan 2013
#201
Here's what I think. I think that desperate people fall back on racial arguments when desperatel
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#205
The problem is the OP reduction of a major issue to one of race, any race, I don't care.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#228
me and my wife are as well as most of our African american friends that own guns
generalhh
Jan 2013
#120
So we have 3 belonging to group (NRA) with board members like Grove Norquist, T Nugent, John Bolton,
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#121
Since you describe yourself as a Libertarian, I am not surprised you are a gun apologist.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#136
Who controls guns in this country has been a debate about race since day one in this country
MrScorpio
Jan 2013
#170
They'll claim they belong to ACORN,teach gays how to defend themselves from other gun guys,vote Dem
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#10
Clearly you faked those photos in the past 10 minutes using secret NRA technology!
Kurska
Jan 2013
#21
You spent two hours convincing some guy on the Internet you really have a girlfriend.
Robb
Jan 2013
#85
Well, Marinedem posted his pictures below. Looking forward to yours...... (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#28
No worries, they'll tell you she doesn't exist just like they told me I wasn't gay.
Kurska
Jan 2013
#15
I disagree and think it is mistake to couch this important issue in these terms...
jimlup
Jan 2013
#34
Interesting OP given that gun control is historically rooted in Jim Crow & Racism.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#45
Sullivan Act (immigrants), Mulford Act (Black Panthers), various Southern "Declared Emergency" acts
X_Digger
Jan 2013
#49
I guess you must have been watching Fox News, her white male son was the mass murderer
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#67
Her white male son with known mental health issues, and a history of violence and also
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2013
#69
White people make up 78% of the US population, and commit 46% of the murders.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#64
54% of Americans want stricter gun laws including 59% of women, 56% percent of white men oppose them
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#66
Argue the merits of your position rather than insulting those who disagree (nt)
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#75
And North Korea has a cute girl rockband and China now has a more middleclass people than America
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#88
Well, when one promises to ban something useful, people who can will tend to hoard.
aikoaiko
Jan 2013
#84
It's very simple-minded to reduce such a complex issue to a racial/gender stereotype. nt
bemildred
Jan 2013
#86
In the future the political bogeyman won't be the black man but the white guy with guns
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#87
Read "and the band played on" and the great bath house wars of the early 80s.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#97
Urban gun ownership rates, non white gun ownership rates are very low
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#105
You are fucking lame. I was a rural white man gun owner. We had single action pistols, shot guns
upaloopa
Jan 2013
#107
My great grandmother owned, as did my grandmother, as did my mother, and I do too.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#89
So in otherwords; credit card debt can be surmised by white female privilidge...
Earth_First
Jan 2013
#99
Agree With OP - White Male Privilege Is A Significant Obstacle To Outlawing Guns In America
cantbeserious
Jan 2013
#106
Yahoos lined up at Atlanta gun show to buy assault weapons only one week after Sandy Hook
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#109
Young African American Male. College Educated, Small businessman, very involved in commuinty
generalhh
Jan 2013
#117
So you are saying white male previlege has no political implications in this debate?
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#127
NOT A SINGLE POST TO DISPROVE THAT GUN OWNERSHIP ISN'T OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE MALE
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#138
Think about this. If African Americans were walking around with guns hanging off their
madinmaryland
Jan 2013
#173
It's just constructive dialogue, can't leave white male privilege out of the discussion
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#191