People in academia receive grants to do studies like these — to “prove” what they already believe — and when they’re done they send out press releases hoping major news outlets will contact them for interviews. As we told you last summer, both CNN and NPR picked up on an author with a new book explaining the racist roots of the Second Amendment, and how the Second Amendment wasn’t about guns but “anti-Blackness.”
We haven’t seen the mainstream media pick up on these studies — they too probably think they don’t smell right. The Federalist reports that these news studies study the correlation between gun ownership and racism.
Gun Owners Are Racist, According To Academics Using Bad Science https://t.co/8pvwUHLWcJ @NSSF
— Larry Keane (@lkeane) August 29, 2022
Dan Lennington and Will Flanders report:
The University of Wisconsin recently promoted a new study contending that in U.S. counties where black people were enslaved in 1860, gun ownership is higher today. In fact, gun ownership, they say, is correlated to the number of slaves formerly in each county. To support this more-slaves-means-more-guns theory, the authors construct a historical narrative that whites feared newly freed slaves, bought guns for self-defense, and then this fear somehow trickled down over 160 years.
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A few days after the release of the slavery-predicts-gun-ownership study, the American Psychological Association (APA) released another study contending that whites support gun rights because they are racist, and when whites oppose gun rights, that’s also racist.
We’re not surprised to see the American Psychological Association throw away any credibility it once had.
The federal government is the largest group of racists by that logic…
— Mike Callaway (@mcallaway33) August 29, 2022
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So many racist cops … no wonder there were riots.
The last time I was in a gun store, there were more blacks and hispanics in line with my white self than I'd ever seen before – and it was a great thing.
— John Skjult (@skjultster) August 29, 2022
Only a dirty commie would say guns are racist
— kingdeath2006 (@kingdeath_2006) August 29, 2022
Actually, we fear tyranny, regardless of the color.
— Superare Vici (@SuperareVici) August 29, 2022
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So black, hispanic and asian gun owers are racist too according to this "logic" or is it only white gun owners who are suppose to be racist?
— J. N. Buck (@TerranEmpire) August 29, 2022
They are not using science bad or otherwise, psychology and sociology are subjective opinions! The scary part is they have run the gov't for 100 years and look where it has got us
— Harold (@HWLONE) August 29, 2022
Damn. Nobody told me owning a gun made me racist. I’ve been racist for over 50 years and half of my family is Mexican and Black. 🤣
— DanielH (@DKH63) August 29, 2022
Academics, with nonsense like this, are rapidly making themselves irrelevant.
— Rudy Forst (@RudyForst) August 29, 2022
But we’re supposed to pay off the student loans of people who went to the University of Wisconsin to learn stuff like this.
The word "racist" no longer has any meaning or validity as the left has worn it out.
— Sue G (@halo1750) August 29, 2022
Does that include ANTIFA thugs “standing guard” at drag queen shows?
— BarkingSpider (@USSpiderWeb) August 29, 2022
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CNN features scholar’s ‘fast-moving’ new book that claims the Second Amendment isn’t about guns but ‘anti-Blackness’ https://t.co/yCB4wpCZbG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 3, 2021
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