In US, racism is linked to gun ownership

obama just amended merriam webster dictionary:

rac-ism noun \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\

1. anyone that owns a gun or advocates the second amendment is a racist.

2. anyone that doesn't agree with him is racist.

3. like chicken soup? that's racist also.

4. don't want to be forced to buy healthcare so the D.C. cronies in the healthcare industry can get rich while the D.C. crook politicians get kickbacks? that's racist!

5. double barrel shotgun isn't racist, semi automatic is racist.

6. all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

7. get away from my jelly or you are a racist.

8. dianne feinstein says guns look scary, they should be illegal because she feels icky inside and you're a racist if you disagree.

9. don't question my manhood, you gun owning racist.

10. time for the NAACP meeting and if you don't like black racist organizations, you're a racist.

That's as ridiculous as saying, "The more liberal people are, the more likely they are to be pothead slackers"

The study is not claiming that everyone with a gun is racist, but that higher levels of racism are associated with having a gun.

lol What an ignorant article.

lots of blacks own more illegal guns that whites and most of them hate white people. the study says so therefore it must be true.

What about people with toy guns, are they more likely to be fake racists?

The humerus bone is the most racist bone in the body, it causes people to make racist jokes or to laugh at such jokes.

Source: I got a B.S. in osteoanatomical physiology from the University of Boise-Indiana-Georgia-Delaware-Utah-Missouri-Montana-Yonkers (U BIG DUMMY).

oh oh oohhhh! they must be racists in training! "yeah, that's the ticket!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyp9fh-u4w8

i tried to go duck hunting with a bb gun when i was kid and got in BIG trouble.

definitely a sign of racism....

Their definition of racism is only slightly worse than your definition of humor.

Article's a joke to me, but I see people taking the bait. Bravo TC.

ahh that's racist.

I knew something like this was eventually going to come out. This is how the study goes... White person buys gun for protection. The protection being that someone is trying to break the law and cause harm to said person that owns gun. Whites account for roughly 18-20% of violent crime committed in the US. Blacks and Hispanic combined account for nearly 70%+.. Study finds owning gun is racially influenced.

Ill admit it, when I bought a gun, it could have been argued that my purchase was racially influenced. A black guy was stalking my wife and a neighbor told me they saw the guy standing outside our bedroom porch one night. After numerous calls to the police and their awesome 30+ minute response time I bought a gun and stayed up one night. Luck would have it the guy showed up and I caught him standing on my porch outside my bedroom... The look of "I immediately regret my actions" came over him. Long of the short, after I told him not to come back he didnt... no one got hurt and the worst of it was he probably had to change his pants and living with the feeling he almost lost his life. More importantly, problem solved.

Point of the story is that regardless of what the guys race was my actions would have been the same. Its not my fault the guy happened to be black, but since he was it is argued by the far left that my actions could have and probably were racially influenced because I am white.

Man, a lot of people in this thread can't read.

can't or won't.

I sometimes feel studies like this only make it harder to actually solve or at least discuss the problems that are implied, especially when it comes to public debates on the internet. I'm not saying the ultimate goal is to mutually agree, but all a study like this does is confirm the negative views two opposite parties have of each other.

Makes sense. Problem is, it's far easier to take away your gun than it is to change your mind.

It's a correlation that's been demonstrated literally hundreds of times. And in point of fact, people who smoke pot *are* more likely to be liberal.

Don't care. More attempts from aljosa to make gun-owners in general look bad.

We have freedom, you don't. Get over it. < 3

This topic has been airchockered

Dat denial.

Some have questioned the definition of racism.

Anything to keep their delusions alive it seems.

You always do when the study doesn't fit your mindset. You should really try get past that.

lmao this guy

I'm pretty sure I can buy whatever size clip I want in my province. u mad?

claiming gun ownership and racism is linked is like claiming... ummm i really can't think of anything to compare this to, it's just not realistic.

@Aljosa23: I'm pretty sure you, specifically, can't. You are insane, after all.

The definition of racism used does seem like a valid criticism

Well thats probably true, not the slacker part. The pothead part. Since liberals tend to support legalization more.

What did you say? Can you yell it out instead of jus typing. I, um, well, I'm a bit embare-assed to admit it, but I can't read.

Seems like a pointless study regardless of its accuracy. Even if the study is accurate and racism really is correlated with gun ownership, who cares? What good does such a study do, besides allowing for more trivia questions?

Assuming someone is racist just because they own a gun is essentially an act of prejudgment (aka prejudice).

Has nothing to do with "mindset"....did you learn a new word?.....and everything to do with what I've observed over time.

people wondering why people who need guns care.

As someone that has lived 30 years gun free, i dont understand why people need guns for their freedom.

However the people that need guns to protect their freedom, seem to live in all white rural locations. And they seem to hate minorities.

Did you vote for Obama?

I guess it's the point that's it's a right, and not a privileged in our country. So people are very patriotic in regards to their bill of rights.

No one needs a .50 caliber rifle, or a RPG-7 - but it's not the "bill of needs".

As for the whole race war thing; white people don't need guns to eliminate blacks when black on black crime is constantly increasing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Homicide

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl06.xls

You're welcome to conduct a scholarly study of your own.

Is it because you "feel" it's wrong? Or is it because you just don't want to accept it? Or, do you have legitimate rational grounds for your claim?

lmao anecdotes.

okay, so what?

No. I suppose disagreeing with his policies makes me racist, right?

Has Aljosa and co. address the definition of racism used yet, or are they still jerking around

Jerking around. That study didn't seem to be a bit "scientific" to me.

Because it doesn't seem right with what I've observed. Believe it or not.....people that don't own firearms can be and are racist. Though what the term racist means in this study is anyone's guess.

I think they went into this study with a preconceived idea and used what supported that idea.

That's a broad generalization though.

And people have guns for other reasons that "protecting their freedom", such as protecting themselves and their family or for hunting.

The study never claimed that people who don't own firearms aren't racist.