Pro-gun is pro-white power: Ted Cruz understands that perfectly. You should, too.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.editorialboard.com/pro-gun-is-pro-white-power/

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Bait

Perhaps no one in the Congress represents “gun rights” more than Ted Cruz. In a Senate hearing held the week after another 18-year-old gunman shot to pieces 10 Black people on Buffalo’s eastside, Cruz accused his Democratic colleagues, who proposed a federal red-flag law, of trying to criminalize the conduct of “law-abiding citizens.”

If the objective is to stop violent crime, what is effective is targeting actual violent criminals. The approach of today’s Senate Democrats is to try to go after the firearms of law-abiding citizens instead of targeting the violent criminals that are the real threat.

He said something similar last night on CNN:

Inevitably when there’s a murderer of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens.

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What Cruz is really saying, when he says pap like this, is that he and his party would rather have a debate over the Constitution, the Second Amendment and law. As long as we go along with that, they win.

There has been no way forward on gun control, because the framing of the debate is usually deadlocked, as rights against rights – the right of citizens to safety and security, and the right of citizens to bear arms.

Indeed, after Sandy Hook, the Republicans broke that apparent deadlock. The best means of security, they said, was more guns. GOP legislators loosened previous firearms restrictions “for safety’s sake.” Of course, in reality, they made guns more accessible to criminals.

Put another way, all this “law-abiding citizens” verbiage is bait. They don’t care about the fact that Ramos was a “law-abiding citizen,” as was Buffalo killer Payton Gendron, before turning to mass murder.

Don’t take the bait.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. White males need guns to maintain power and control.

When women and POC got the vote, they knew they could be in big trouble.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Sure it is

[SYFROYH]

3. I don't think everyone agrees with that author.

Say hello to the Huey Newton Gun Club.

https://about.me/cdn-cgi/image/q=80,dpr=1,f=auto,fit=cover,w=1200,h=630,gravity=auto/

[Bonx]

4. and the National African American Gun Association

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/12/09/944615029/black-and-up-in-arms