Hot take: Fear of Native Americans during the frontier days is the root of whites owning guns for home protection

Like we always say, we try not to pick on Twitter randos and stick to all of the blue-check journalists and politicians when we write posts, but some tweets just go viral and you just can’t help sharing them. Here’s Ally Henny trying to get to the root of the “white American ethos” of owning a gun to protect your home … it goes all the way back to frontier days.

I don’t have any way to prove this right now, but I feel like the white American ethos of home protection using firearms is rooted in racism, I think specifically fear of native people during the frontier days.

— Ally Henny (@thearmchaircom) September 30, 2019

I feel like it’s a certain brand of white folks who espouse this ethos, and I wonder if it’s rooted in protecting stolen property.

— Ally Henny (@thearmchaircom) September 30, 2019

I also feel like there is a connection to fear of black people too.

— Ally Henny (@thearmchaircom) September 30, 2019

Of course.

Oh lordy, the trolls are here now. That was fun while it lasted.

— Ally Henny (@thearmchaircom) September 30, 2019

The “trolls” have some pretty good points, though; what’s the root cause of black homeowners owning firearms for personal protection?

I dunno, I’m pretty sure not only white people own guns, but I’m just guessing. ? https://t.co/B5juQkim7V

— Petite Nicoco (@PetiteNicoco) September 30, 2019

I know good strong fathers of every race who are willing to do whatever is necessary to protect their family. If you intend to assert that only white people are concerned with this, then you prop up the stereotype that African Americans don't care about their families. https://t.co/EkOUqs4VFZ

— Ben Hood (@vasili1097) September 30, 2019

Well, I'm sorry but your feelings are going to be hurt by the fact that black people own homes, too. Some of them own guns. Maybe you might look down on those sorts of blacks which may cause you to break your neck while they look down on you for disrespecting their gun ownership. https://t.co/wYNEaCdHjY

— CJ (@TheTweetsOfCJ) September 30, 2019

The charge of "racism!" for anything and everything has become a way to numb the mind on the way to the revolution.

Academia is abetting and indulging this type of hate and self-righteousness. With no checks, it's "research" has become a joke. https://t.co/0SmEAqOryx

— Jan Kragt (@jgkragt) September 30, 2019

Self defense is racist? Lol https://t.co/uevCN6u1gA

— ПΛƬΣ (@Nate__VA) September 30, 2019

I’m a Hispanic and I protect my family with guns does that make me racist against myself

— malachi (@it_me_malachi) September 30, 2019

Hariet Tubman stayed strapped. Ida B. Wells kept her Winchester by the front door.

But gun control was always about keeping minorities disarmed. That's what it's still about except the truth has become silent. One time Bloomberg slipped and let out it was about inner city youth. pic.twitter.com/98fmwPrzfb

— Gun Nerd (@GunWingNut) September 30, 2019

I remember @CondoleezzaRice telling the chicks on #TheView how her father and other neighboring men used their guns to protect their families from the KKK during the Jim Crow Era, so, “No.” #EverythingAintRacist #2A https://t.co/p6j1YzUtSZ

— The Chocolate Russian (@mslavondra) September 30, 2019

No urbanite understands living in the actual country. The wilderness requires being armed. Nature doesn't respect our feelings or do no harm nonsense; all send bears and wolves and rattlesnakes and foxes, etc. Those are actual threats pioneers needed to deal with. Also assault

— Diogenes Hotep (@KosherInfidel) September 30, 2019

No. They were just as afraid of white men. Bandits, cattle and horse thieves, etc. It was a lawless time. People had guns to take the law into their own hands.

— Lesley Anne (Castillo) Klepac (@AnneKlepac) September 30, 2019

You racists and your…[spins wheel]

home protection! https://t.co/JV6zV1h3zG

— Pointed Questioner (@PointQuestioner) September 30, 2019

The concept of a right to bear arms predates the settling of America by the Colonists, having a long history in English Common Law.

— PirateSpitter (@PirateSpitter) September 30, 2019

My firearms don't understand human concepts like race. They do however have a prejudice against people who come into my home and threaten me or my family, kinda like my dog.

— Dr. Claw (@JohanDoah) September 30, 2019

Nope. I'll shoot anyone that threatens my safety or property, no point in discrimination. And my recently immigrated to the US-Korean neighbors feel the same. https://t.co/N3TKY0nAeZ

— LeakyWicks (@WicksLeaky) September 30, 2019

If you’re going to call me racist, then don’t stop at home protection. Be sure to include F-150 protection, church protection, dining out protection, shopping protection, & walking down the sidewalk protection. Btw, does my truck get me any white American ethos racist points? https://t.co/yPgl3atSsj

— Joshua (@RealJoshPerry) September 30, 2019

It was guns.

Full-sized pickup trucks will have to wait until next week.

Observe: no evidence. Of course not. Evidence is necessary for traditional theories. This is critical theory. https://t.co/IxHR1S54Ig

— James Lindsay, sexy Google search (@ConceptualJames) September 30, 2019

"I don't have any way to prove this, but I feel like…it's racism" Pretty much sums up the social justician's approach to everything. https://t.co/5XnO3uKDff

— Larry Farlow (@LarryFarlow) September 30, 2019

Girl, robbery is as old as time. https://t.co/ABbEhWqiBi

— Summer White Jaeger (@SummrWrites) September 30, 2019

Guys, it's racist to want to protect your home and family. Exodus 22:2-3 was added by white supremacists. https://t.co/Cbg0Xlr8aB

— Duck Covenant Succession (@ReformedMallard) September 30, 2019

I think Exodus predates America by a few years …

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.
— Exodus 22:2

People have been protecting their homes since sin entered the world and thievery began.

— Dr John M Hamblin (@dr_hamblin) September 30, 2019

A fair attempt but sadly Biblical truth doesn't fit the narrative.

— Brother Douglas (@Brother_Douglas) September 30, 2019

Or it could be rooted in the natural law principles of self-preservation and the expression of such in the Western political tradition since the 12c but idk

— Timon Cline (@tlloydcline) September 30, 2019

Guns are an equalizing tool that anyone of any color, creed, religion, gender, any classification you want, who has not heinously broken the law, is free to utilize to protect themselves, their families, and their possessions. Fact, not feeling.

— Dawn Atkins Stanford (@Dawnstnfrd) September 30, 2019

I have a way to prove that the roots of the distinctly American ethos of home protection using firearms is rooted in a general distrust of overbearing government. I know you’re a scholar so I would recommend studying more history before making “I feel like…” statements here.

— Harrison Farr (@harrisonfarr) September 30, 2019

Red-coats, not red-skins

But good try pic.twitter.com/oPNuli0Ltg

— Crimmy (@KamelGuru) September 30, 2019

This is why we can't have nice things. https://t.co/F91O4n6zQT

— OCpatriot (@OCpatriot123) September 30, 2019

https://t.co/uL8B1QMGS8 pic.twitter.com/tYCnqVvo9e

— Aliyah ? (@forgivendotk) September 30, 2019

Every time I see a post like this I have to check and make sure I’m not looking at parody account. It’s exhausting.

— giddyfalcon (@HarveyBarker5) September 30, 2019

Wow the ignorance and racism of the responses of this thread. This is definitely a thesis worth researching. Ignore the trolls.

— SASAMI (@sasamiashworth) September 30, 2019

Related:

Scorching hot take: Whites invented guns to kill from a distance because they're most cowardly race https://t.co/mhrDbIs9lW

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 31, 2018