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In reply to the discussion: The Real and Racist Origins of the Second Amendment [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)17. For your own sanity, don't venture there
They are NRA hard-liners, many of more are more reactionary than many Republicans. They live in a form called RKBA, formerly called the gungeon. For the last week their gun porn has been all over General Discussion, but thankfully the threads were put back in that forum this morning. I have actually put the entire forum In my trash can so I don't encounter any of their posts. There are some reasonable people over there too, but there are a lot whose gun fetish is extreme to say the least.
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Their color was nonetheless entirely insignificant, we would've done the same to any color,
Lionessa
Dec 2012
#13
I think the sense, back then, was more along class and culture lines than race lines.
iemitsu
Dec 2012
#56
Can you give an example of white populations who were wiped out and/or forced off their land
ecstatic
Dec 2012
#62
When the native Americans started the Pequot War in 1637 by killing an Englishman who they thought
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#29
The late-colonial and early Republic had their own racist gun control laws
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#9
"I don't know why you think guns were the most important right." I don't.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#52
Please repost this for the Gungeon folks, they are out of the loop on this notion.
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#5
Perhaps some people haven't read this. I haven't. I would really like to hear the
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#20
Exactly. And the NRA cleverly got people parroting their devised "gun control is racist" line...
villager
Dec 2012
#15
Though gun apologists get to ignore the racist roots of gun proliferation? Or the actual politics
villager
Dec 2012
#43
Look at who most of the victims of gun violence -- recurring massacres aside - tend to be
villager
Dec 2012
#48
I'm sure the founders knew pretty damn well that slaves could indeed rebel and
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#45