Toolbag Wednesday #14: Racist Gun Owners
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Anecdotal reports from around the nation suggest the sudden surge of November gun-buying is far surpassing the normal hunting-season spike that often occurs this time of year…Some [buyers] say they are worried that the incoming Obama administration will attempt to reimpose the ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. Others fear the loss of their right to own handguns. A few say they are preparing to protect themselves in the event of a race war.
Race war?! You’ve got to be effing kidding me. Now, not only do these people (and let me say, “these people” can also be applied to my Dad, my Uncle, and my Grandpa) want to own guns for the principle of it and for “hunting, mostly,” but also, you know, to shoot black people. Just in case. Is that also a God-given and Constitutional right? To be RACIST?
The article goes on to ask the question you “hate to ask,” but can’t avoid:
“Why are white people buying assault weapons?” said Ben Agger, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Arlington who wrote a book about the Virginia Tech slayings. “I almost hate to say it, but there is a deep-seated fear of the armed black man, because Obama now commands the military and other instruments of the justice system. They are afraid Obama will exact retribution for the very deep-seated legacy of slavery.”
I’m exasperated. I have no more words.
Oh. My. God.
I can’t believe these people are allowed to procreate.