Wow. :rolleyes:
I disagree. The leftist Hollywierd media machine has portrayed gun owners as conservative white-supremacist “bubbas” for so long that the meme stuck, and the NRA has never bothered to counter it. I do agree that for the longest time, at least the simple majority of the gun cultutre was the predominantly white conservative suburban/rural type, and typically male.
I think it’s slowly changing, and becoming more heterogenous. I think the NRA needs to resurrect and reinvigorate the “I’m the NRA” ad campaign with a focus on diversity.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, and Pink Pistols, needs to be gladly embraced by the NRA; it may cost some old-school rank-and-file members, but I think it will garner more (and more worthy) broad-based support in the general population of non-NRA gun owners.
Thanks!
:rolleyes: That bullshit again?!
Is that your only quibble? :dubious:
Yeah, but now they’re worn by hipsters. Which makes them even worse.
Okay, I can see on review how that comment could very easily be taken out of context. I don’t always remember that not everyone else has my background and experiences, so let me clarify (bear in mind I’m not a liberal or politically correct):
The vast majority of people I’ve seen at the gun shows I’ve attended for the past 15-16 years are just ordinary folks of every size, shape, and color you can conceive of humanity. If you were standing in line next to them at the grocery store, you wouldn’t bat an eye.
But the vast majority of them have also been white.
But, on occasion, you would see this. And This.
Unfortunately, for the longest time, the latter was a greater proportion of the blacks I saw at gun shows.
Equally unfortunately, the former was the pervasive stereotype amongst the virulently anti-gun people I’ve met online.
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more of this. Or, more seriously, people like this.
Condescending Robot, while I disagree with him, does make a valid point about the perceptions of the NRA and gun owners amongst non-whites. I see that changing more nowadays, and would like to see it change even more. Not just perceptually, but actually.
I want more everyday folks (even if they look like this, or this), and gays, and Asians, and Latinos, and everone else to actually become safe, happy gun owners and members of the gun culture.
Because then the perception of the gun culture amongst anti-gun politicians and the greater public won’t necessarily be this.
And then the politics of division will be much less effective.
How did the hipster burn his tongue?
He was eating pizza before it was cool!
Looks like a good argument for discretionary issuance/denial of carry-permits.
Hey, if it keeps them from breeding…
And your argument looks like an argument for “pre-crime.”
You can’t deny rights to people based upon how they look, whether they share your skin color or not.
This pasty white conservative seems to have a better grasp of “equality under the rule of law” than you.
You should also include a photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. He applied for a permit after his house was bombed in 1956 but the state of Alabama decided he didn’t need one.
He seems to have done well enough without one; being armed would not have saved his life. James Earl Ray not being armed would have.
So, based on his looks, it was okay for MLK, Jr. to be denied a permit to carry a concealed firearm?