Before American politics has the ability to make a real effective push for true gun reform among the ‘free’ American people who should always have their freedom and rights to bare arms, the majority of America has to get closer to the same page. We, as a united front, all need to see, feel, and understand the real problems in relation to gun violence that are currently afflicting the American people, F.Y.I. its not really the guns. That’s why, in my opinion, most of this gun reform media or ‘propaganda’, as some like to refer to it, is bull shit that Politicians are using to push their agenda but that is another convesation. The same message has to reach multiple different people coming from totally different vantages. The message isn’t even all the way right yet but its getting there (I still think we’re focused on the wrong messaging points but that’s just one black man’s vantage WE NEED MORE AND WE NEED TO BRING REAL HUMAN LOGIC AND REASONING TO THE CONVERSATION). Certain types of exposure and experience gaps in America prohibit most people from understanding other people’s vantage, we have to shrink those gaps as much as possible. A decent amount of African and Hispanic Americans along with other American’s living in high-violence and drug infested low-income areas feel and understand the power of the gun (which is just a human made tool) being in the wrong hands a little different than maybe some other Americans from areas not as violent, poverty-stricken, drug infested and with not as many ‘minorities’.
Sidenote: Hey Americans from the more peaceful environments where certain people don’t get to the point where they FEEL THE NEED HAVE TO break and enter as a way of survival, rob people at gun point, or sell illegal things from drugs, to sex, to black marketed/boosted items just to make ends meet LISTEN UP! I GOT SOME NEWS FOR YOU. Some people can’t see the same things you see as realistic options and there are real mental barriers in place, I would not necessarily say I’m in that state of mind but I encounter countless people who are in one way or another and I am not fearful of them more than I am aware that they may be battling demons that are much more severe to them than the ones currently in front of me. War veterans aren’t the only Americans dealing with PTSD on a regular everyday basis but they are the only one’s that get a medical budget, a support system that understands, and a socially acceptable pass for having mental trauma because they gained it most likely serving this country similar to police officers. Certain areas of America while a lot of us don’t want to admit it cause similar types of mental issues, we all see it in the kids now. I need more numbers to back up and understand the rate and pace in which things have changed and how drastic this really is all over the country and world, I can’t trust any one source to shape my complete opinion, this is a very touchy and diverse subject. Y’all know the President of the United States is an old black guy from Chicago. Y’all also notice how all the killing in Chicago that HAS BEEN going on for years happened to get much more light shed on it after he became President and things actually started changing.
Chicago went from Chief Keef and drill being the face of its youth to Chance the Rapper. Let that sink in next time you think that rap music doesn’t mean anything it is the voice of the youth currently and not listening is asinine if you care to help understand and affect the lives of those who are coming behind you. I can have a long conversation about Chief and Chance too. 2 young black men, exact same environments, different support systems, chose similar industries to funnel their passion and both represented the voices of millions that were quite underrepresented until they did the work required to gain the respect for their vantage, perspective, and takes on life and the world around them. The difference between having leaders and kids being chiefs.
Guns aren’t the problem. People still are.
