RE: Ahmaud Arbery OP/ED
November 8, 2021 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2021 at 5:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What's amusing, if you click on that link and read the full report (though this next part is in the very next paragraph to what I quoted)...is that white males are massively overrepresented in the cohort of people with either concealed carry permit - or open carrying... and the victims and perpetrators of any kind of shooting are overwhelmingly more likely to be of the same race. So, the effect of castle doctrine by brute force of numbers is an increase in white guys shooting each other.
Roll that around for a bit - and then remember...the scourge of violent crime referred to by this ideology is not just nonexistent for this demographic, but on the decline period.......everywhere, at all times, for any demographic, for as long as we've been keeping records. A solution to a problem that doesn't exist and is being made more marginal than it already is every single year on record.... which yields more klansmen shooting each other than anything else by sheer force of demographics, is a conservative shibboleth, that does nothing notable for them other than incarcerate minorities at 4x the rate of the majority (who find themselves in more of these situations every year by order of magnitude), giving you no better than a 50/50 chance of evading a murder charge yourself. Which is to say that this particular bit of fun, again by sheer force of demographics, still manages to incarcerate more white males even with the handicap.
Ladies and gentleman, the banality of evil. Explicitly seeking to oppress the other, these laws in practice manage to do nothing but kill conservative white males who would vote for those laws if they were still alive.
Roll that around for a bit - and then remember...the scourge of violent crime referred to by this ideology is not just nonexistent for this demographic, but on the decline period.......everywhere, at all times, for any demographic, for as long as we've been keeping records. A solution to a problem that doesn't exist and is being made more marginal than it already is every single year on record.... which yields more klansmen shooting each other than anything else by sheer force of demographics, is a conservative shibboleth, that does nothing notable for them other than incarcerate minorities at 4x the rate of the majority (who find themselves in more of these situations every year by order of magnitude), giving you no better than a 50/50 chance of evading a murder charge yourself. Which is to say that this particular bit of fun, again by sheer force of demographics, still manages to incarcerate more white males even with the handicap.
Ladies and gentleman, the banality of evil. Explicitly seeking to oppress the other, these laws in practice manage to do nothing but kill conservative white males who would vote for those laws if they were still alive.
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