Race and Guns: Liberals are screwing up their own message.

maxdancona wrote:

If you found evidence that just this year young black men have shown up to protests brandishing rifles and were neither arrested nor shot ... would you admit your guess isn't that reasonable?

No, I would not. Anyone with a brain would not. But, you have to defend your bullshit, so continue to defend it.

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(I am pretty sure you didn't bother to check for any factual evidence)

I am pretty sure you once were a reasonable poster, Max, but I acknowledge I may be wrong. Perhaps you have always been what you are now...and that is anything but a reasonable poster.

Frank Apisa wrote:

maxdancona wrote:

If you found evidence that just this year young black men have shown up to protests brandishing rifles and were neither arrested nor shot ... would you admit your guess isn't that reasonable?

No, I would not. Anyone with a brain would not. But, you have to defend your bullshit, so continue to defend it.

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(I am pretty sure you didn't bother to check for any factual evidence)

I am pretty sure you once were a reasonable poster, Max, but I acknowledge I may be wrong. Perhaps you have always been what you are now...and that is anything but a reasonable poster.

1. OK.... so evidence won't change your mind about a factually incorrect ideological narrative. I guess that kind of ends the discussion.

2. I haven't changed. I state my opinions as I have always done.

Able2know is more one-sided, extreme and nasty than it was in the past. That may be what you are noticing.

Someone with my viewpoints would have been considered solidly liberal 20 years ago. In fact I was solidly liberal 20 years ago. It wasn't me who changed (and that is the problem).

Liberals are going crazy.

Well sure. No one wants to be charged with indecent exposure.

Nuh-uh.

No, you're wrong.

Adding the word "style" is simply a marketing approach used by the gun manufacturers after the assault weapons ban wasn't renewed. The USA was filled with pictures of deployed soldiers at the time and "tactical chic" had become really popular. Making guns look like tactical weapons and selling tactical gear at gun shops opened up a whole new world of profits as these products appealed to budding psychopaths who used them to shoot up schools, shopping centers, and movie theaters, or, like Rittenhouse, sought an opportunity to use them in a civil disturbance.

An assault weapon can be dressed in wood and steel instead of black plastic.

But a wannabe assault-styled weapon is usually made to look something like an AR15 because that's what the kids see in the movies.

with no pistol grip!

never knew they made a machine gun.

Pistol grips have nothing to do with anything.

Frank, this little spat is so blindlessly stupid.

1. The meme claims that young black men brandishing rifles would be shot or arrested.

2. Young black men are brandishing rifles in front of police and are not being shot or arrested.

What is it that I am not getting? Because you are correct, I honestly don't see it.

oralloy wrote:

Pistol grips have nothing to do with anything.

They actually have a lot to do with style.

A black composite gun with a relatively short barrel, high capacity magazine, and a pistol grip shouts "TACTICAL ASSAULT" and is used as a selling point for marketing the product to adolescents and couch commandos. As Rittenhouse admitted, it looks a lot cooler than a handgun.