Guns and Racism

[beardown]

27. I think that the profile of gun owners is changing as we type.

Records sales. Many to first time owners. Fear of terrorism coming to your front door, etc.

I'd agree that it's still a strong majority of repubs, but not nearly as vast as it might have been a decade ago.

We read similar pieces here occasionally that say only white guys want guns, but they are routinely countered by the citing the number of Af-Amer groups supporting gun rights and increased sales as well as the racist reasons prompting many of the older gun laws.

As far as abandoning other Constitutional protections, there are many of us here that say more good can come from and more lives saved if the Democratic party is no longer seen as the party of gun confiscation and many single-ish issue swing voters will vote Dem and thus help advance economic and social justice, a viable safety net, livable wages, a national mental health support structure, etc.

We are routinely insulted as NRA hacks and now you call us impotent because we can't convince control dems to keep their eye on the larger goal. Gun confiscation is a Reagan like simple sounding solution that allows the person presenting that argument to ignore and discount the much larger issues in America that are worsening as we type while gun deaths have been on a long decline, despite more guns, more gun owners, and more CCW than ever before.

Not saying that you were calling for confiscation, but often times, DU gun controllers spell control as 'confiscate'.