Interesting what it takes for the NY Times to show guns in a good light. Black women buying guns to protect themselves.
This is practically a love letter from the NY Times to gun owners. Why? Because they are BLACK, WOMEN gun owners. |
| New hotness. This is the actual picture in the Times article. |
The phenomenon was explained firsthand this week in an Op-Ed for The New York Times by Antonia Okafor, a graduate student at the University of Texas, Dallas. In her piece, titled "Why I Bring My Gun To School," Okafor, who's one of the foremost and youngest Second Amendment advocates in the nation, details why she supports Texas' recent conceal carry law for college campuses and carries her Ruger LC9 pistol with her almost every where she goes. Okafor writes that when she began advocating for the passage of the conceal carry law, she was not a "gun enthusiast." But after a scare from a cyberstalker, she writes, she learned to shoot a gun and felt a new sense of empowerment.
"I felt empowered to be holding a tool that could protect me physically, and I was determined to learn how to use it responsibly. It was a relief to know that I could shoot if I had to, even though I would never use my gun unless it was a last means of self-defense. I got my concealed carry license a year ago," she writes, before going on to explain why "there is a place for young, pro-Second Amendment women in modern feminism."
Up to 59 percent of African-American households now view owning a gun as a "necessity," according to a recent study from the Pew Research Center released this month, and African-American women have outpaced all other races and genders in terms of securing concealed carry permits in Texas between 2000 and 2016, according to demographic information released by the state.
See, according to the Times, for the last 40 years at least, guns are bad. They are super duper bad. White men owning guns is bad. White women owning guns is slightly less bad, but still bad. Black men owning guns, still kinda bad.
But black women owning guns? That's awesome! You go, girl!
But black women owning guns? That's awesome! You go, girl!
How long before the Times goes out of business? Please let it be soon.
3 comments:
...and by tying gun collecting goodness to feminism, it comes with a built-in message the penis is evil.
Holy Zardoz!
Yeah, I just took it as another article by a kid that didn't get the "guns are bad!" memo. Empowering women and minorities is supposed to be giving them tea and sympathy. If you let them buy guns, what the hell do they need white Liberals for?
White liberal don't WANT them to have guns!
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