The American Terror Industry | The New Republic:
In the beige scrubland of the Nevada desert, with jagged mountains in the distance jutting up like the teeth of car keys and red-dirt berms all around, I could’ve squinted and imagined myself on a forward operating base somewhere in southern Afghanistan. This illusion was aided by the gun-guy fashion so popular in the age of the AR-15I've given up on expecting a "fair and balanced" essay on the Second Amendment from the Leftists.
It seems mandatory that when they write about legal firearms owners, they cannot differentiate between responsible citizens and inner-city gangbaners. They seem to see us in terms of hopeless, illiterate degenerates with "no schoolin' ner no civility".
Innocent (and "well regulated") shooting matches are perceived as an exercise in "shooting people", and while I don't deny that exercises in self-defense may appear to be assertive rather than defensive by people who don't bother to understand the genre, I tire of the need to explain ... to defend my sport against the ignorantia .. and so I am related to defending my sport agaisnt people who se no "sport' in Defensive shooting exercises.
My eyes kept falling on a black man standing outside the convenience store. He was dressed in baggy jeans and a puffy vest, clothing with plenty of room to hide a weapon.We are left wondering why the author singles out the subject of his screed because of his race, because of his mode of dress, or because the author is just fearful of anyone who doesn't fit his personal perception of someone he and trust. Should this black man in baggy jeans and puffy vest have seemed more "trustable" if he wore a pink IZON shirt, Docker Shorts, and the "correct" shoes?
Perhaps if the author had encountered the man at a Starbucks, he would not have been so easily frightened.
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