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Group wants to eliminate ‘human black silhouette’ targets (VIDEO) {Racism}
guns.com ^ | Feb. 17, 2017 | Chris Eger

Posted on 02/17/2017 9:51:26 AM PST by PROCON


The No More Black Targets campaign argues that shooting ranges and instructors should not use “menacing” black targets, and is petitioning to end the practice, citing trigger bias.

“Young black men are 3X more likely to be shot by trained shooters than their white peers,” notes the site for the campaign. “A disturbing potential correlation: The most popular target for shooters to learn to use their firearm is a black silhouette. Unconscious bias can be deadly.”

A Change.org petition by the group intends to call upon the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors to end the use of black silhouette targets.

The group references a study by University of Illinois researchers that concluded shooters were more likely to fire at a black target.

One of the researhers in that study, Yara Mekawi, told National Public Radio in 2015 that people were “quicker to shoot black targets with a gun relative to white targets with a gun. And…people were more trigger-happy when shooting black targets compared to shooting white targets.”

It is not the first proposal of its kind. In 2015 a lawmaker sought to ban the use of human silhouette targets in Pennsylvania for all but law enforcement use, arguing they perpetuate violence.

The No More Black Targets petiton had 18 signatures as of Feb. 17.

The group has also created a number of alternative designs rather than the traditional dark silhouette through an art collective.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; blacktargets; bnaglist; racism; targets
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No, not satire.

If you haven't yet had a facepalm today, watch the 1:20 video.

1 posted on 02/17/2017 9:51:26 AM PST by PROCON
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To: Blue Jays

Yes, leftwingers, now we will consider legislating COLORS!?!?
Get a grip, people.

2 posted on 02/17/2017 9:53:50 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: PROCON

Ha! I paint my steel targets white. So there....


3 posted on 02/17/2017 9:55:57 AM PST by Envisioning (Trump is imposing the people's will on it's government......)
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To: Blue Jays

Maybe black targets want to identify as blue targets?


4 posted on 02/17/2017 9:56:17 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: Envisioning
Well, that just shows your "white privilege". </sarc>
5 posted on 02/17/2017 9:59:52 AM PST by PROCON (Defending the Border isn't a Political Option, it's a Constitutional Obligation ~ Rick Perry)
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To: PROCON

LOL, I guess we have to make sure all prospective live targets are both backlit AND frontlit! Silhouettes are racist!


6 posted on 02/17/2017 10:01:20 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Maybe black targets want to identify as blue targets?

Actually, the full size B-29 silhouette targets we use at the farm are blue.

7 posted on 02/17/2017 10:02:00 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Envisioning

Make the targets Democrat blue since most criminals are Democrats.


8 posted on 02/17/2017 10:03:46 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PROCON

Shadows will be outlawed next, but not all the people living in them.


9 posted on 02/17/2017 10:04:01 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: PROCON

Black ink text on white paper should be banned as well. Because, you know...reading is difficult and discriminatory. Especially cursive...


10 posted on 02/17/2017 10:06:25 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: PROCON

Red is too native american. I guess only “white” targets will do.


11 posted on 02/17/2017 10:06:55 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: PROCON

Every home security system commercial I’ve ever seen on tv has a WHITE GUY playin’ the burglar.


12 posted on 02/17/2017 10:07:30 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: PROCON

But blacks in Chicago regularly fire at black targets.


13 posted on 02/17/2017 10:07:45 AM PST by umgud
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To: PROCON
“Young black men are 3X more likely to be shot by trained shooters than their white peers,”

Young black men commit violent crime at a rate vastly greater than young white men. Young black men shoot other young black men at a vastly greater rate than young white men shoot anybody.* Perhaps young black men should quit committing violent crimes against each other and against everybody else. Then maybe they wouldn't have to worry about getting shot. Silhouette targets are just a distraction for idiots.

* Excepting war ...

14 posted on 02/17/2017 10:07:58 AM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: PROCON

...”quicker to shoot black targets with a gun relative to white targets with a gun”

I’m scratchin my head why a white or black target would have a gun unless these were live targets....


15 posted on 02/17/2017 10:08:58 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: PROCON

Why not have this lovely piece of human flesh take a full-size selfie, and offer THAT as a replacement for a target style that has existed since the 1920’s?

Obviously, this ‘thing’ is an anti-gun person.


16 posted on 02/17/2017 10:09:16 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: umgud
Speakin' o' Chitcago ...

They're up to 85 homicides on the year ... 29 for the month of February ...

17 posted on 02/17/2017 10:12:05 AM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: PROCON
Young black men are 3X more likely to be shot by trained shooters than their white peers

Considering young black men are at least 10x more likely to commit violent crime I would say the shooters need to up their game.

18 posted on 02/17/2017 10:12:25 AM PST by relictele (`)
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To: PROCON

My range has both white and black silhouette targets.
I choose black only because they are easier to see hits on.

This is stupid.


19 posted on 02/17/2017 10:14:32 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PROCON

I’m really concerned with the placement of black olives at the supermarket. They’re kept on a lower shelf than all of the other olives. I think we all know what THAT means.

Rayciss.


20 posted on 02/17/2017 10:14:36 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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