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I honestly was not trying to raise anyone's ire - so if I came at this from the wrong angle, I do apologize. What I was trying to point out, and likely failed in the attempt, was that the mainstream gun control movement seems to mobilize most often when the victim is white and when the crime occurs in a well-off neighborhood.
ever see the "no guns for negroes" stuff over on JPFO ?
JFPO is of the opinion gun laws were made to keep the black population down, and is now being used on the rest of us.
If you have never heard of JFPO, they are the one group that will not crawl into bed with the government and compromise your rights under the 2A, unlike the NRA that hops into bed with the government on a regular basis.
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/movieplay-ngn-swf.htm
(p.s. I board op/engineer/produce in the Boston market)
I honestly was not trying to raise anyone's ire - so if I came at this from the wrong angle, I do apologize. What I was trying to point out, and likely failed in the attempt, was that the mainstream gun control movement seems to mobilize most often when the victim is white and when the crime occurs in a well-off neighborhood.
Littleton, CO is a fairly wealthy neighborhood and in the year after the Columbine massacre, the Million Mom March thrust itself into the national consciousness. What I apparently screwed up was my attempt to link them, their demographic and their intent to respond only to threats that affect them and let's face it - I was actually IN DC when that was going on, it was a fairly lily-white crowd. I make this observation not to appear racist but to illustrate tha the MMM and groups like it only get 'outraged' when its dead white folks in the setting they previously thought was safe - which to me, was more of an attack on a certain complacent worldview that comes only with arrogance and yeah, a sense that violence is more of an urban reality.
They say a comic who has to explain his jokes isn't a comic at all. So too it appears for writers. Thanks for the feedback.