Why the Black Congressional Caucus isn't pro-gun escapes me. Part of it is our fault, I mean there is more than a bit of racism in the gun culture (and I have been guilty as well). But I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that will vanish if the guy or gal next to you at the range were black. Because a lot of those comments were based on assuming that you could judge someone's politics based on their skin color, not looking beyond that. That's our bad. Because seriously? Who needs guns more than people living in crime ridden neighborhoods? Who should distrust the government more than folks who were once legally enslaved? These are our natural allies, and if the NRA were doing its job they'd be on our side.
I'm sorry, but I don't accept responsibility for the self image of any man.
No person of an age to be participating in this conversation has any reason to expect anyone to accept responsibility for what he or she is, save ones self. If one wishes to be thought of, or think themselves Free, Slave, Thug or Outcast, each has been afforded the right, and privileged to conduct themselves in such manner, by their own choice, not mine or anyone else here. It didn't happen that way..
We've all been given the right to be who and what we wish to be.
I've been mocked just about all my life for one thing or the other, whether it be fat, walking funny, a stupid laugh, more intelligent than useful, more patriotic than practical, (bitter clinger), smoker in a smokeless age, a few others. So what?
The observations say everything about the observer, and practically nothing about the observed..
What one chooses for themselves, each chooses of their own accord. Each will be judged, ultimately by their observations, by one of stature, power or grace, rather than whom they observe..
If I taught you how to suck, well, that may well be on me, if I taught you to be so as a child. Even then, an adult, by definition and law, is judged righteous or evil by that which they choose for themselves..
If somebody wants to be a dickhead, that's not my fault.. If it becomes my problem, I've learned to have witnesses, if possible, in removing the problem from my circumstances..
Okay, I'm done..
We now return you to our regularly scheduled "programming

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