Dreamer
Regular Member
I think we all know what this means...
We (the folks in the 2A movement) got hip to the phrase the "anti's" were using before:
"We want to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong kinds of people"
And we got COMPLETELY hip to what they mean when they say "the wrong kinds of people" and have been calling them out on the racist, classist sentiment that this phrase embodies.
So apparently the "anti's" figured out that we had figured them out. They've stopped using that old phrase, and are now using a new phrase:
"Reasonable Restrictions"
And I'm sure we all know that this new phrase is just another name for the same old Jim Crow, racist classist attitude, meant to keep firearms out of the hands of the poor, the disenfranchised, the non-property-owners, and the non-white.
It brings to mind the "reasonable restrictions" that were enacted for "health and hygiene" reasons in the early 20th century to prohibit African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Amercans from using the same swimming pools, drinking fountains, restrooms, and lunch counters as whites.
I cannot understand how minority groups will put up with racist gun laws that are DESIGNED to disarm law-abiding minority citizens, while at the same time going ballistic over every perceived slight (real or imagined) in other venues.
Helmke and Sugarmann need to be PUBLICLY called out for the racist, classist elitist scum they are. When the African American community starts to realise that EVERY TIME a new gun law passes, they are essentially being told by the government that they are STILL considered as "N!##%&$", perhaps then, they will stop drinking the anti-gun kool-aid...
We (the folks in the 2A movement) got hip to the phrase the "anti's" were using before:
"We want to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong kinds of people"
And we got COMPLETELY hip to what they mean when they say "the wrong kinds of people" and have been calling them out on the racist, classist sentiment that this phrase embodies.
So apparently the "anti's" figured out that we had figured them out. They've stopped using that old phrase, and are now using a new phrase:
"Reasonable Restrictions"
And I'm sure we all know that this new phrase is just another name for the same old Jim Crow, racist classist attitude, meant to keep firearms out of the hands of the poor, the disenfranchised, the non-property-owners, and the non-white.
It brings to mind the "reasonable restrictions" that were enacted for "health and hygiene" reasons in the early 20th century to prohibit African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Amercans from using the same swimming pools, drinking fountains, restrooms, and lunch counters as whites.
I cannot understand how minority groups will put up with racist gun laws that are DESIGNED to disarm law-abiding minority citizens, while at the same time going ballistic over every perceived slight (real or imagined) in other venues.
Helmke and Sugarmann need to be PUBLICLY called out for the racist, classist elitist scum they are. When the African American community starts to realise that EVERY TIME a new gun law passes, they are essentially being told by the government that they are STILL considered as "N!##%&$", perhaps then, they will stop drinking the anti-gun kool-aid...