Piff Perkins
Veteran
Black men getting caught up in this “ban all the guns” shyt are being finessed.
Don’t quote me trying to argue, i don’t give a fukk.
I’m just letting y’all know.
No serious people here or elsewhere are calling for all guns to be banned. That's simply a lazy strawman argument peddled by the far right and the NRA.
The reality is that gun regulation is necessary, period. I support the second amendment. If you want a gun, fine. And if you're black, recognize there is a LONG history of guns being used in the struggle.
(I posted a link to the book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made The Civil Rights Movement Possible, but it's not showing up due to the embedded Amazon thing.
None of that contradicts the view that gun control needs to be stranger. Specifically, if you want a gun you should have to pass a background check.
My biggest problem with gun convos is they ignore the fact that handguns are the #1 driver of gun violence. Normally we focus on these school shootings where a white guy blows away people with an automatic rifle but that's far from the norm. Inner city violence is largely driven by illegal handguns flooding the streets. Chicago is a great example. People love pointing out the city/state has gun control, but it's surrounded by states with no gun control. Most guns in Chicago come from Indiana. Those guns are shipped in underground and sold cheap, by cacs to black people. Poison for the community. An essential part of gun control is cutting down on gun trafficking. Straw purchases. Closing the gun show loop hole. That's essential and will save lives, specifically black ones.
Republicans have spent the last 20 years dismantling the ability of law enforcement to crack down on gun trafficking. And ever since 911, the FBI has been focused more on terrorism than more traditional American crime. Remember in The Wire when McNulty tried to get the feds involved on Barksdale, and the dude was like "I could help if his last name was Mohammad"? That's how it is...