Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Will there be an increase in blacks obtaining concealed carry permits? [View all]anomiep
(153 posts)It's the way it ought to be, just from the standpoint of equal protection, if individual black people make the decision to arm themselves, and I've often thought that law-abiding people in high crime areas (whatever the color of the people who live there) probably need guns for self defense *more* than someone who doesn't have a whole lot statistically to worry about. And that sucks, because it's in the highest crime areas, with stricter gun laws, that it's hardest for a law abiding citizen to get a gun.
I don't think it would disturb my 'image of blacks', either. I've always tried to take people on a case by case basis, based on what that person *does* and who they individually are, rather than on skin color.
So generically, I say no problem.
If people of any color are arming up with intent to harm others rather than for recreation and self defense, though, that would worry me. Not because of skin color, but because of intent - say some white power group decides to arm up for a race war (which I don't doubt that some are). *That* would (and does) disturb me.