My thoughts on this topic are as follows.
One group grew up in households with guns. Their friends, neighbors and relatives tended to have guns and no one was committing crimes. Life experience has shown this group that owning guns and committing crimes are unrelated.
Another group grew up in housholds without guns. Friends, neighbors, and relatives did not have guns. The only guns they heard about or came into contact with were in the hands of criminals. Life experience taught them that only criminals have guns.
Our problem is how do we convince the second group that they are wrong? We do need to put forth the effort or the other side will be the majority and outvote us.
Here in Oregon, I very seldom see any African-Americans at the gun shows. We are losing a large block of people if this is the case in states that have a larger black population. I see many more Hispanics even though they are a smaller percentage of the population. This is not being said to promote racism or to be derogatory to any group so please do not jump on me for making a racist remark. I am just counting heads. If this degenerates into racist scree, I will pull my post and ask the moderator of this section to take action.
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