re: #159 Unshaken Defiance

With all that’s wrong with open carry, unrestricted CCW, I think we have to stop failing ourselves at the social safety level. From the same link above-

What does it take to deal with dangerously ill people?

It takes them being black, or brown, or some other ‘dangerous’ social class.

The US firearm system is working as intended. The system is not designed to keep weapons out of the hands of insane white males. If it was, it might actually happen sometimes, and gun deaths might decline, instead of rising. Gun massacres are an intended feature of American life - they stimulate gun sales, they keep people fearful, stimulating more sales and the social and political constructs that keep American people in a constant state of depraved indifference.

Americans believe that guns are for shooting other people in normal civilian life. This is a mindset that is so alien to those of us who did not grow up here, yet so ingrained in the national consciousness that the average American cannot conceive of it any other way. As long as everyday, commonplace gun deaths are the province of ‘those people’ - black thugs, gangbangers, etc. - and gun massacres are a privilege of white men, the American system is exactly as it is supposed to be.