WAPO: Gun Rights Are About Keeping White Men on Top

[AuH20]

Come again?!?!?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.23527c4ec8f3

In Colonial America, gun ownership equaled power. More specifically, it meant the power to control the means of violence and use those means to suppress the voices of the disenfranchised. Throughout the 17th century, almost all the English colonies along the Eastern Seaboard passed legislation prohibiting women and slaves from owning guns and forbidding the sale of guns to native peoples. By the 18th century, gun ownership had become a defining feature of white masculinity in the English colonies and guns played an integral role in Colonial men’s public displays of that masculinity

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This lengthy history means that when white men feel disempowered, they are primed to resort to gun violence to reassert their sense of authority. It’s no coincidence that the rate of gun violence, and mass shootings in particular, has risen in tandem with the expansion of rights and representation for people of color and women in recent decades.

[Swordsmyth]

Maybe the left should be giving guns to minorities if they really care about them?

[specsaregood]

[phill4paul]

It’s no coincidence that the rate of gun violence, and mass shootings in particular, has risen in tandem with the expansion of rights and representation for people of color and women in recent decades.

Did WAPO forget another of their own articles?

We’ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here’s why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.3e055fbfacb3

[Anti Globalist]

There the democrats go again telling us how they care so much for the well being of minorities.

[enhanced_deficit]

Seems then that WaPo has been pushing contradicting narratives.

WAPO: Gun Rights Are About Keeping White Men on Top

Their latest narrative contradicts their recent "Trump is racist" narrative.


Trump's AG nominee supported gun control!

[fedupinmo]

Maybe WaPo needs to visit Chicago at night...

[bv3]

Wait, so codified disarmament of a population was one aspect, a significant aspect, of that populations' subjection?


I know the trend this evokes is the ol' "Gun rights are a characteristic of white supremacy rather than a true honest founding value," but more properly understood it begs my question.

It might sound like gun fire, but thats a generation of predatory prohibition one hears in Chicago at night.

[Occam's Banana]

Throughout the 17th century, almost all the English colonies along the Eastern Seaboard passed legislation prohibiting women and slaves from owning guns and forbidding the sale of guns to native peoples.

And just why did they do that, do you think?

Of course, the answer to this question is obvious.

Put whatever face on it you like, but ultimately, you want to ban guns today for exactly the same reason they did then - namely, to disempower anyone (not just white males) who might dare to oppose you.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...

[juleswin]

Seems then that WaPo has been pushing contradicting narratives.




Their latest narrative contradicts their recent "Trump is racist" narrative.


Trump's AG nominee supported gun control!

Trump has a problem articulating his thoughts, no way he meant to say taking people's guns away without due process.

[pcosmar]

WAPO,,

of course they are wrong.. Gun CONTROL is Racist.

https://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer.racism.html