Notre Dame prof. calls permissive gun laws a 'manifestation of racism’

Campus Reform ^ | January 5, 2016 | Anthony Gockowski

[Zakeet]

A professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame published an op-ed in The New York Times linking lenient gun laws in America to racism.

Prof. Gary Gutting argued "permissive gun laws are a manifestation of racism" and invoked "hatred of racism" as a motivation for the gun control movement. According to Gutting, high exposure to guns in largely poor black neighborhoods along with low restrictions on gun ownership permeates a culture of racism.

Gutting, in an effort to rouse his gun control allies, posits racism as the motivational force behind a successful gun control campaign. Racism, in Gutting's argument, will give the gun control movement "the vigor and persistence needed" to overcome gun lobbyists.

"If we fail to oppose with equal passion and vigor the relentless political pressure of (mostly white) gun advocates, we force a large number of black citizens to live with the constant threat of gun violence. We're in effect letting the Second Amendment trump the Fourteenth Amendment, implicitly preferring the right of gun ownership to the right of black people to live free from fear," Gutting argues.

[Red in Blue PA]

Wait, I thought the laws preventing felons from buying guns was racist.

Which is it?

[Sirius Lee]

Yeah, like the Jim Crow laws where there was total gun control over blacks...oh wait.