Considering
all the crap that's gone on since Obama was elected to the White
House, one would think his apparent discomfort with firearms would
bring peace to white America.
But
no. As soon as he admits to skeet shooting once in a while at Camp
David, to demonstrate his regular guy-ness, everybody wants to see
the pictures. White women line up to challenge him, betting they are
better shots than the brown man who leads.
White
men haven't challenged, apparently self checking into the Dick
Cheney “I shot my friend in the face” column, assuming they are
more manly than our current mocha prez. It's the same, tired old
shit. Any white man is better than the best black one, at anything.
Really?
Because
that's all this crap is, another way of implying that President Obama
is soft. That he is not ever up to the task of being the President of
the United States again. For a second landslide term, another four
years as voted by “we the people” of the United States.
And
who gives a damn, anyway? The gun control debate is not about how
well, or even if Obama can shoot. It's about all the fools running
around with weapons of war in an alleged civilized society. That's
all it's ever been. Except when it turns racial, like now, when the
focus is on Obama's “manliness” or when Black Panthers were
legally carrying weapons in public, back in the day. Talk about
about faces, the NRA nearly gave itself whiplash back peddling on
guns in public when black men took to the streets peacefully inside
their own neighborhoods. The panthers didn't kill anybody, but the
government declared open season and killed them.
Today,
the Tea Party has been doing the same thing within the past four or
five years and nobody bats an eye. GOP legislators can't change the
laws quick enough to allow this blatant guns in public, anti
social/racist behavior, yet all anyone can talk about is whether or
not our president can shoot a gun.
Any
fool can shoot a gun, just ask Dick Cheney's buddy with the shot off
face.
Let's
get serious. The United States Constitution allows citizens to own
a gun. Second Amendment. Fine. This law also means that no one is a
criminal until they pull the trigger and or kill someone. Therefore,
in order to protect society from criminals, all citizens have to be
regulated, because criminals will only reveal themselves through
their illegal actions.
You
can't just say “keep the guns away from the crazy and the
criminal,” because there is no way to know them before the fact,
unless there is a screening procedure and or background checks for
past behavior.
And
considering what happened at Sandy Hook and Columbine and all the
other schools and workplace shootings, these shooters, most of them,
would have passed the background checks as well as the screenings,
because they are to the manor born, white guys with access to money.
Face
it, the masters of the universe do not want to deal with the fact
that they are raising crazy violent children. But they must if we are
to survive as a civilized society.
Then
again, maybe that is the issue, shrink the US until it's small enough
to be drowned in a bathtub.
Is
that the game being played right now? We can't have it so we're going
to make sure that you don't? Really?
And
don't for one minute, one second, think that I am letting Black
America off the hook. There is no fucking reason on the face of this
earth that justifies all the Black kids dying in Chicago, in my
neighborhood and all the other urban neighborhoods in the US.
This
is not a white man's problem...this is US, period. White people
aren't killing US. WE are killing each other and it's got to stop.
When
will the so called leaders, so called civil rights groups, so called
Black religious organizations, churches wake the fuck up?
Black
on black violence is not about the number of guns. It's facilitated
by the abundance of weaponry, but not precipitated by it.
Our kids have been dying for a long time. Do we need a Black Sandy Hook
before WE wake up, too?
Inquiring
minds want to know....
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