[extropy-chat] Guns

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> --- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap at runbox.com> wrote:
> > My point against the
> > permissive gun laws in the US is that they encourage any unthinking
> > teenage redneck with sexual problems to carry one and make use of it.
>
>... Your stereotype is a myth, and a rather offensive one
> at that, but I understand that it is one that the yellow-baiting
> european press likes to promulgate with regularity, because being
> prejudicial and racist against white country dwellers is entirely okay
> in leftist circles....

No, not entirely okay in leftist circles.  It is harmful and prejudicial to
use terms like "redneck," "trailer trash," and the like.  I have stated so
in the past.  I can't see how the use of those terms can be justified.

Olga