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In reply to the discussion: Racism and gun culture [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)If it really was as common as you seem to assume(though I'm sorry if you happened to grow up in a bad neighborhood or a particularly wing-nutty place, there are a fair number of those around), this country would have turned into something akin to Nazi Germany or Somalia a long time ago(despite what TPTB would like us to believe; and sadly, many well-meaning people do in fact fall for that cock-and-bull.). Bank on it.
Edit: Though, on second thought, I guess it'd be more accurate to say that many people simply didn't really think about such things, or, for whatever reason, just wanted to avoid the problem(I'm sure some may disagree, but I've always been of the view that silence does not necessarily equal approval). Sad truth is, same thing also went for Civil Rights violations in the South in the '50s and '60s and the suppression of labor during the last third of the 19th Century and the years preceding WWII.