Goose wrote:

Yea. All it takes is complete ignorance of the black experience in this country and that sounds entirely reasonable.

 
With all due respect, that is ridiculous.  One's race does not give them an excuse to lawlessness.

The Man wrote:

Goose wrote:

Yea. All it takes is complete ignorance of the black experience in this country and that sounds entirely reasonable.

 
With all due respect, that is ridiculous. One's race does not give them an excuse to lawlessness.

With all due respect, you are ridiculous to ignore the effect of race on police behavior.
As I said, complete ignorance of history is a friend to you.

The Man wrote:

Goose wrote:

The Man wrote:

 
I'm really on neither side of this, to be perfectly honest, but what do you arrest them for? Open carry is legal, as long as they legally own the guns, and that's all they're doing. Openly carrying guns legally is not inciting violence, by definition. Until they break a law, there's really nothing that can be done except for verbally discouraging them from doing what they're doing.

I think the issue is that their treatment was much different than was the treatment of "others" who might have carried weapons in the streets of Fergusen.

 
But that's pure speculation.  If others, black people for example, would legally open carry guns, I don't see why they would be treated any differently.  Have they tried? Now, if they aren't following the law, are illegally possessing guns, yes they would be arrested.  I do know, from just a quick google search, that this group in Ferguson does have black members.

 


I think we should all just dress in camouflage, wear helmets, bullet proof vests, open carry automatic and semi-automatic weapons for the intimidation factor, and indiscriminately shoot anyone who disagrees with our interpretation of the law.

That's what I call a pure democracy!

Jeez . . . I gotta move to Belize or somewhere . . . This is getting really ridiculous.

Last edited by Rongone (8/11/2015 7:21 pm)

Rongone wrote:

The Man wrote:

Goose wrote:

I think the issue is that their treatment was much different than was the treatment of "others" who might have carried weapons in the streets of Fergusen.

 
But that's pure speculation.  If others, black people for example, would legally open carry guns, I don't see why they would be treated any differently.  Have they tried? Now, if they aren't following the law, are illegally possessing guns, yes they would be arrested.  I do know, from just a quick google search, that this group in Ferguson does have black members.

 


I think we should all just dress in camouflage, wear helmets, bullet proof vests, open carry automatic and semi-automatic weapons for the intimidation factor, and indiscriminately shoot anyone who disagrees with our interpretation of the law.

That's what I call a pure democracy!

Jeez . . . I gotta move to Belize or somewhere . . . This is getting really diculous.

 
I'm not sure what your point is, but hey, Belize is nice, go ahead and move there.

Goose wrote:

man, you  have a huge blind spot about race. What do you you expect me to do, ignore it?

 
I think you have a huge delusion about race.  You seem to have some 'white guilt' issue.  Just because black people are arrested, doesn't mean it is racially motivated.  You do know that there are black people who are criminals who should be arrested, right?