Black, the average, responsible gun owner means nothing to any debate on gun control because they don't partake in the debate. It's the rabid gun fetishists on the one side versus those who have very reasonable fears of exactly who gets access to guns and how easily they get it. And caught in the middle are those who are very, very tired of having to bury another class of children, or a good chunk of a parish's worshipers.
You want to not get painted with the same brush as the gun fetishists? Get them out of the public discourse as those speaking for the gun owners, or at least get a strong counterpoint where gun owners actively and loudly call them out and condemn them. Because right now, those fetishists are the only gun owners who are politically active on the question of gun ownership.
You want to not get painted with the same brush as the gun fetishists? Get them out of the public discourse as those speaking for the gun owners, or at least get a strong counterpoint where gun owners actively and loudly call them out and condemn them. Because right now, those fetishists are the only gun owners who are politically active on the question of gun ownership.