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Originally Posted by Climb2safety
Actually, many towns in the wild west had extremely restrictive gun control laws.
On the frontier it was different but in town, many made you check your gun before entering.
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Correct about being controlled to a degree in the towns. It was not actually the towns themselves but the businesses who made you surrender your weapon at the door. Walking down the street with a hosltered revolver was commonplace actually. In fact that is the origin of the 'tipping your cap' gesture at someone - back then you tipped your hat with your gun hand as if to say 'Not going for my gun, just saying hello'
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Originally Posted by gocubsgo3822
they just know that bad areas are really bad. And they are frightening. I have ended up i multiple places on the southside where i have been scared for my life multiple times. It is why i will never go back to those areas again.
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Yeah, if I was ever sent there I would bring my weapon without a second thought regardless of whether the city had gotten around to rubberstamping my carry permit.
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Originally Posted by Climb2safety
Yeah. Safety is not Chicago's or the USs strong suit. People from other countries come here to be less safe all the time.
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I was not aware we had replaced the statue of liberties torch with a fucking help wanted sign...
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Originally Posted by Kevaroo
If you're not caring about large groups of people because they black, that is racist.
Just because someone doesn't care about a person(s) and they happen to be black doesn't mean racism is involved.
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Ecactly this, take any large demographic and put them in the same violent situation and calling out a problem that Stevie Wonder can see 20/20 is not inherently racist.
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Originally Posted by rmp207
I have a large problem with Al Sharpton and rev Jackson, they are two "community leaders" who stoke racism and the us against them mentality.
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I give Jackson far more credit than Rev Al. At least Jessee has legitimately tried to help by running for office and shit, Sharpton just wanders around trolling for the next allegedly racist incident to line his pockets and stoke the flames of racism. If Jackson was a bit smarter, quicker on his feet and not such a one trick pony he'd stand a better chance of election and put himself in a position to help and further distance himself from a huckster like Sharpton.
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Originally Posted by Climb2safety
I am sure a ton of poor folks would jump at the opportunity to get an education IF someone paid their bills, gave them transportation, brought them clothes, watched their kids, put food on their tables at night, could guarantee them that once they graduated they could find a job.
And once they got that job, that a less qualified person would not be promoted before them only because the other person was white.
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Where can I sign up for the first, I'd love another degree, a new car, new clothes, expense money, etc, etc. I would probably wonder who was footing the bill for my good fortune though.
As to the second about promotions, that cuts both ways - there are plenty of examples of whites who were equally or more qualified being denied a position in favor of a person of color.