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Interesting conversation with a passenger from South Africa today: He asked me if I would open a gun store and shooting range in D.C. if I could. His point (the argument was about "reasonable regulation, and I am talking here about a hardline old fashioned Afrikaaner so understand where his reasoning was coming from ) was that D.C. is full of "savages" who would likely raid the shop or the range and the police would likely provide little protection; and as for renting guns out at a range, why, that would just be asking for trouble in a place like D.C. This, he said, would be "reasonable regulation" (quote) "Because Washgton DC is full of Kaffirs and if you must arm them or no one, then you must disarm everyone". :shock::uhoh:
Well!
I responded that for some strange reason the ranges here in Virginia had no such problem, and that there are a God's plenty of criminals here who are as white as Wonder Bread (and just as smart). And I told him to go into any gun store in Virginia and look around and realize that the owners and help are quietly but obviously armed with some serious artillery, and at the ones with ranges especially there are LOTS of LEOs, ditto armed. If you are a newcomer you will be watched circumspectly but closely, I mean, people who sell firearms legally and for a living are almost ipso facto NOT fools.And of course I pointed out to him that "Kaffirs" come in the whole spectrum. So of course I would open a gun store/range in DC (if I could) but would start by building an LEO clientele with complimentary range timeand family events, etc. before I started advertising to the general public.
His response was that "letting Kaffirs have guns is a mistake. I'll never understand it".
Now, let's take the gentlleman's reasoning and apply it to the advocates of gun control in "big cities". You know, folks like Fenty, Bloomberg, Daley, et al. For that matter, let's take the Lord Mayor of Alexandria, one William Euille who was born and raised in the projects and who would turnAlexandria into pre-Heller DC if that pesky State Preempton would just move to one side. Hells bells, let's take Rudy Giuliani, the white former Mayor of New York City ad erstwhile Presidential Candidate who begged off NYC's onerous gun laws to the NRA by saying that New York was a "special case". Take everything these antis havesaid about "reasonable" gun control and it boils down to:
"Kaffirs......If you must arm them or no one, then everyone must be disarmed"
THAT is "reasonable gun control" :what:
It is also RACISM.
By the lights of these same people (except maybe Giuliani) criticizing"The First Black President" for his idiotic policies is "racist" (which it is not ) BUT denying guns to everyone because poor Black neighborhoods are crime ridden is not "racist" (which, in addition to being STUPID it certainly is).
One more thing before I close: To our Black bretheren here at OCDO my use of certain terminology was only an accurate depiction of what the person in question said, In no way do I wish to insult or hurt any of our membership. And I am pretty sure not a few of you have had these conclusions floating aaround in your heads long before I wrote this post....... Alexcabbie.
