re: #305 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

so the latest meme coming out of the gun lobby is that liberals only care about guns when cute white children are killed, cuz ya see we only care about banning semiautomatic weapons, and that we don’t care about the many thousands of black children killed by handguns

cuz we don’t care about controlling handguns??

cuz the republican party and the nra care about black people?

They’ve kind of halfway stumbled onto a legit point, though their approach to it is typically disingenuous and shit faced. Our society, yes even liberal society, demonstrably does get a lot more vocally upset about the loss of white kids’ lives, with missing blonde white girls having set off multiple nationwide panics. Also, handguns are statistically represented far more in every type of firearms related crime and we should do a lot more to regulate the shit out of them. But you’re right, the last thing the GOP and NRA are interested in is fixing real problems and there’s nothing they love better than to blame minorities instead of the systemic dysfunction & structural racism that actually underlies their disproportionate violent mortality rate.