I'm starting to think there's a racial angle to the whole "we can't stop mass shooters" line

[ck4829]

A big beautiful wall will suddenly stop Hispanic people from crossing over the border.

We can take any number of measures to protect ourselves against the Muslim... ban them, kill their families, send them back to their countries, partner up with Russia in some glorious war of civilizations, it's not that hard to murd... kill one and a half billion people in a totally just war, torture them, slather their bodies with pork, use holy water and garlic (The last one is a slight exaggeration of what right wingers seem to believe).

Give black men rough rides and be rough with them when you arrest them, stop and frisk, and if black people make you uncomfortable when they are protesting when they are being shot then just run them over, that'll teach them for daring to have the gall of thinking their lives matter.

But that mentally ill white male (Full disclosure: White male myself) shooter, you know, what can you do? They'll always outfox our government, they're just so smart and edgy, they'll find loopholes, if you take away their guns, they'll use bats or bombs, you can't stop them, they're unstoppable killing machines, fact of life, it happens, blah, blah, blah.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I support the government paying for and providing an AR-15 to every single

non white person and non Christian in America.

I mean if we are going to purposely misinterpret the 2nd for profit reasons, lets go ALL out.

If those guns are now legal, and I assume they are, then lets ALL have them including and especially non white christians, oh and ALL women should have one too.

[Aristus]

2. I think you're right.

If these mass shootings were all being perpetrated by black men, they'd have gun control in a heartbeat.

Reagan signed gun-control legislation in California specifically because of his fear, and white fear in general, of armed black men.

[LonePirate]

3. It is related to the racial angle gundamentslists use when they say they need guns for protection.

[Squinch]

4. Absolutely. There is certainly a racial angle, and I think there are a lot of unpaid trolls

who spread the talking points of "nothing you can suggest will ever work, it's too big to solve, just give up."

One of those pieces of shit has a long thread on DU right now whose purpose is to spread that message.