Reply #130: Give that man a prize!

[ieoeja]

This is a case where people are not willing to look at the way others live. Disarming people who live in the country would leave them prey to any creep who comes along. Too many urban Democrats fail to appreciate the reality of that fact.

Likewise, too many rural Republicans fail to appreciate the reality that no law will ever make it possible for a black man in the city to protect himself with a gun. If he does, the police (and the people) will immediately assume it was a gang/drug related shooting. That's why every African-American male I know wishes he could own and carry a firearm legally, but most still oppose making it legal.

Lynching laws weren't inherently racist either as the law technically applied equally to blacks and whites. In practice, it proved very much otherwise. The right to carry a firearm would likely be the same.