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December 13th, 2021, 04:18 PM #31
Re: I emailed author of article about the 2nd Amendment being racist
Irresponsible journalism serves a purpose. If brought up short, they can claim innocent ignorance, thus avoiding a charge of deliberate misleading.
There are two kinds of guns. Those I have acquired, and those I hope to.
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December 19th, 2021, 07:57 PM #32
Re: I emailed author of article about the 2nd Amendment being racist
If the guy works in an office and lives in a sterilized suburban neighborhood, he may sincerely believe the stuff he wrote, since the MSM is the only source of info he has about guns. That being the case, I think his relatively short article is a great bullet list of easily refutable (incorrect) talking points that suburban soccer moms tend to sincerely believe are true w/r/t/ guns:
I have only begun to process his not-guilty verdict, announced Friday afternoon.
There is so much suffering, so many reasons to mourn.
Rittenhouse may be legally innocent, but blood will remain on his hands, his heart, possibly for the rest of his life. The people I know who have killed others say such actions — firing a gun at another human being, watching the body drop, the blood spill from wrecked flesh, the breath stop — will distort and haunt for time immeasurable.
Self-defense, his lawyers claimed.
Would such a claim apply for every American?
Consider local history. Ed Johnson facing a white lynch mob, the Cherokees facing forced removal, five Black women shotgunned by the Klan in 1980 — if they had armed themselves and shot their white attackers in self-defense, would the courts have set them free?
It is hard for me to imagine a present-day Black teenager carrying an AR-15 to our city's next protest, shooting three white people, claiming self-defense and receiving the same treatment and verdict as Rittenhouse.
The criminal justice system seems more schizophrenic than blind; it has ruthlessly eaten up the lives of so many, while bending over backwards to allow and sustain others' freedom.
I think of Tony Oliver [..............................], authorities visited their home. Found the gun [................................] Oliver was a felon on probation; he is prevented from possessing a firearm.
With his daughter watching, Oliver was cuffed and sent back to prison.
Why?
His wife owned a gun.
For self-defense.
Ms. Anderson's book delves into the real reasons framers of the Constitution included the Amendment — mainly the threat from armed slaves and free Blacks."
"The eighteenth-century origins of the 'right to bear arms' explicitly excluded Black people," writes Anderson, a decorated, best-selling professor at Emory University. Elsewhere, she writes: "The Second Amendment ... was designed and has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable."
Can you think of any time in American history when Black people collectively armed themselves against white violence ... and received full support of the Constitution, police officers, judges and politicians for doing so?
Philando Castille. Alton Sterling. Tamir Rice. John Crawford. All Black. Each carrying or possessing a gun. (Rice, 12, was playing with a toy gun. Crawford was carrying a BB gun he'd picked up off the Walmart shelf.)
They were all shot and killed by police.
Who gets to carry guns in this country?
And who doesn't?
I, too, own multiple guns. But if my Black brothers and sisters can't carry their guns in the same way I canThey even have minds but do not think. -Dov Fischer
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December 19th, 2021, 10:48 PM #33
Re: I emailed author of article about the 2nd Amendment being racist
This is the thumbnail background of David Cook, the man you wrote to.
David Cook is the award-winning city columnist for the Times Free Press, working in the same building where he began his post-college career as a sportswriter for the Chattanooga Free Press. Cook, who graduated from Red Bank High, holds a master's degree in Peace and Justice Studies from Prescott College and an English degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. For 12 years, he was a teacher at the middle, high school and university levels. A Marshall Memorial Fellow, Cook published in magazines (The Sun, Utne Reader, Geez), academic journals, an anthology on homelessness ("Personal Struggles, Professional Lives: Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness" — Lexington Press) and an anthology on grandparents and grandchildren ("Grandparenting with Heart" — North Atlantic).
https://www.timesfreepress.com/staff/david-cook/
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