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Why do I need a gun? Because I'm part of a minority and some guys in white ropes want me dead
The guys in white robes bought a gun just as easily and they're thrilled to hear you're armed because it's all the excuse they need to execute you in the street.
Because they won't actually be wearing white robes. They'll just look like any other generic white American male, and they're going to kill you long before you find out their political opinions.
You've sold your minority group out to the gun lobby and now you're doing their astro-turfing for free.
And you think that me not having a gun would have prevented them from killing me? If yes, in what way?
The flipside of that argument is folks who wear pointy white caps on weekends really don't like when minorities also have rights to gun access and it makes them squirm a little. A lot of racist people are all bark and no bite and just like to put on a tough guy persona (but of course there's a lot of racist people who will kill someone if given the opportunity)
As long as there's as many weapons in this country as there are, I think it's more important to breed a culture of gun safety before gun restrictions ever have a chance of taking hold
A left-wing, pro-gun fantasy instead of a right-wing, pro-gun fantasy but a fantasy nevertheless.
Racists today are feeling more emboldened than they have for 40 years and minorities are no safer.
The guns did nothing and the promises were just hollow propaganda designed to sell guns to both racists and people scared of armed racists.