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Well-armed white folks will eventually tire of waiting for targets of color to wander onto  porches and into their crosshairs.We've seen what happens when guns proliferate in poverty stricken enclaves.People of the same class and color begin settling trivial arguments with lead.When single, shotgun soccer moms and pistol-packin' parents start showing up to sporting events , armed to the teeth , there's bound to be mayhem.Watching our kids play games pisses most of us off. If anything can bring on a fit of murderous rage it's watching your sons soccer team get beat by girls .I've seen it happen .It was my grand daughters team and she made a boy cry. I digress , but felonious assault was not out of the question. That was a couple of years ago and suburban semi-automatichondria had not yet hit it's stride
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While it is true that more blacks are killed at the hands of blacks than at the hands of whites and that a high percentage of gun violence occurs in population dense areas , the ownership of guns in rural and suburban communities is steadily increasing. In articles by both Mother Jones and M.Live state police officials from Georgia and Michigan estimate that half the people on the road today are armed  There are already ample examples of handgun use in road rage incidents.One especially grisly case in Alabaster ,Georgia involves  two bright,  middle class women .One is on her way to pick up her daughter from her special needs school.The other on her way home from work.After a quick lane change and typical back and forth insults they both took the same freeway exit.After stopping at a light one driver got out of the car, and approached the other on foot.She leaned down ,peered into the driver side window and was shot in the face by the driver.She died at the scene,never having picked up her disabled daughter from school .These  incidents may not be statistically relevant but the mindless,  split-second , ruthlessness of it resonates.

Statistics do demonstrate that suburban and rural Americans are the undisputed virtuosos of non-military,  mass shootings.Over eighty percent of the incidents that qualify as mass shootings in the last three decades have been committed in rural and suburban areas.The ten thousand pound Howitzer in the room is brutally obvious.We have been manipulated to think we can protect ourselves with guns.Even police rarely discharge their weapons over the course of an entire career in a profession that serially places them in contact with the very criminals we are told we need to arm ourselves against.As for the delusion that  that we need to protect ourselves from our own military.One well trained,well provisioned ,squad of regulars could erase a legion of weekend warrior hypocrites.If the feds decide to wage war against their own people an AR15 won't help.In the event of a  Zombie apocalypse maybe.

There are over three hundred million firearms in the U.S. today The firearm business in America generates almost twelve billion dollars a year.That is a mighty investment in fear, paranoia, and the serial murder of animals. The  N.R.A. and A.L.E.C.  [American Legal Exchange Counsel] say we need more armed citizens at all times in all places to prevent mass shootings.  In  sharp contrast to that tired argument not a single mass murderer in the last three decades has been stopped by an armed civilian.It is hard to believe that , in the end,  it's all about the money .There are religious elements oddly aligned with gun lobbyists.There are also psychotic super patriots who may truly believe Charlton Heston was Moses and" he loved him some gun."

We have a right to live in a society with competent police protection that  citizens vigilantly evaluate.It is our duty to make the institution perform.As imperfect as it may be, it is better than mini-vans and bungalows filled with anti -depressant addled vigilantes with guns at their bedsides and in their glove compartments waiting to go Diehard on the neighbors tattooed son.The P. A. C. s that lobby on behalf of the gun manufacturers have to be dragged into the sunlight.The success of their state by state passage of laws like Stand Your Ground is breathtaking, partly because most of this occurred without notice.There are petitions in circulation advocating the repeal of this vague and dangerous law in many states .Google it and you will find a wealth of resources and research .Careful though,common sense tells us  to be cautious when dealing with bees,right wingers,religious fanatics, and people with guns.We might not understand them ,but there are consequences to pissing them off.