Posted December 16, 2015 1:52 pm by Comments

By Chris Enloe

An AR-15 is seen for sale on the wall at the National Armory gun store, January 13, 2013. (Joe Raedle)

On Wednesday, Salon published an essay that accused “white men” of “killing us” all, alleging that the FBI identifies “right-wing, Christian men” as the United States’ greatest internal threat.

Race, guns and gender – the common denominator at the heart of so many problems – are what we need to talk about https://t.co/XXpEHpnjBB

— Salon.com (@Salon) December 16, 2015

The author, Chauncey Devega, attempted to draw parallels between racism and gun control, saying that guns are “central to the founding of an American society where hierarchies of race and gender were central to the country’s Herrenvolk white racial settler democratic project.”

“Guns helped White America to commit genocide against First Nations peoples and to steal land under the doctrine of Manifest Destiny,” Devega wrote. “The gun maintained Southern society as a white over black racial military dictatorship. The gun was also a tool for white elites to control the working classes and poor.”

An AR-15 is seen for sale on the wall at the National Armory gun store Jan. 13, 2013. (Joe Raedle)

Devega went on to accuse “right-wing Christians, mostly men,” as being America’s “greatest internal threat” for domestic terrorism, citing a Mother Jones article that …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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