Today's front page of the Sac Bee made me sick

[Bennyboy]

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/03/5231577/guns-a-tale-of-two-statesfaced.html

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Egad,

it looks like someone trying to stage a stereotype. Yikes!

[Arugula Latte]

4. My first thought, too.

"Hello, Central Casting? We need a beer-gutted white guy with a baseball cap to play a gun nut...."

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. People are typecasted for roles based on reality. nt

[Bake]

15. Really? I guess that's why Hollywood for years cast blacks as tap-dancers.

OH. And don't forget the watermelons.

Your statement is bullshit.

Bake

[mzteris]

24. welll -

they cast blacks as tap dancers, because there were no white people who could tap worth a damn!

Sure, some came along later (Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, etc.), but in the early days - nope. And still today, I'd say most of the best tap dancers in the world are black. Savion Glover, Chloe Arnold, Jason Samuels Smith, Jumane Taylor, Derrick Grant, Toni Lombre, Anissa Lee - to name just a few.

I may be prejudiced, though. My son tap dances quite well. Oh - and he's black, too. (Doesn't like watermelon that much, though.)

[Bake]

26. You're right.

I remember the incredible tap dancer who used to be on the Lawrence Welk show (I was only a kid and that's what my parents watched ...), but I can't remember his name.

My comment was, as I'm sure you know, for years those were the only roles black performers could get in Hollywood. And that was in response to the poster's comment that typecasting was based on reality.

I didn't intend to sound like I was dissing tap dancers.



Bake

[mzteris]

27. Good -

'cause my tap dancing son is a rather large fellow! (He plays football, too.)

Arthur Duncan was the name of the guy on Lawrence Welk.

There is still discrimination every day. "Entertainment" - sports being the main form - is one area where blacks are "accepted" unconditionally - that's because, generally speaking, they're just better. But other jobs - executive, coach, owner, anything other than the "labor" part - is still grossly discriminatory against non-whites and females. White males are still the dominant "ruling class" in this country.

[Bake]

28. Arthur Duncan! Thank you!

Bake

[Bennyboy]

12. And a 15 year old in cammo and a beaming Mom standing nearby...

America, is this a great country or what?

[reformist2]

20. They look like nice people, for gun nuts that is...

That guy on the far right (literally) scares me, though!

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Honey Boo Boo....that's Amurika.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Yep

We are a laughingstock around the world.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. BTW....the caption at the link says the kid is 15 years old

[Comrade_McKenzie]

8. Can't drink, drive, or join the military...

But here's a weapon of mass murder.

Have fun.

[warrior1]

6. I stop going to their site awhile back

I use to be a good paper and is the only paper in Sacramento. Sad.

[NoMoreWarNow]

9. so many fools wasting their money on these guns

I heard AR15s are going for over $5000 these days. Really really dumb... and then they complain about taxes probably...

[kimbutgar]

30. Just think they might end of going In big debt buying those guns

My husband works with a right winger who brought a bunch of guns, got himself into heavy debt and lost his home to foreclosure. He had money for guns but not enough to make his mortgage payments. Maybe enough of these fools who spend $5000 for a gun will end up needing government assistance one day and won't get it because they voted rethuglican. These one issue voters might end up shooting themselves figuratively in the foot. Ha ha.

[Lint Head]

10. Wonder if this genius is still in school?

[Throd]

11. Why? Also, that photo was not on the front page.

[Bennyboy]

13. Right you are it was the MUCH larger photo

On the larger piece inside. The photo made me sick. A 15 year old with an AR15. The article made me sick. Most of all the MOTHER in the photo makes me sick. Really nothing about any of it that does not make me sick.

[Recursion]

14. A teenager learning to shoot makes you "sick". Really?

I mean, really?

[L0oniX]

16. Preparation for stupid patriotic (idiotic) military service. We need the stupid to kill for us.

[Recursion]

18. Most military recruits have no experience with firearms

It's actually a problem for military marksmanship instructors recently.

[Brother Buzz]

25. I seem to remember from my days....

The military desired trainees with no experience, a blank slate. I also remember a lot of time was spent getting the crack shots to unlearn a ton of civilian habits of handling rifles that didn't jibe with the military's scheme of things. But that was a long time ago and the instructors were brown boot soldiers.

[L0oniX]

32. Hell ...I got a rifle marksman merit badge in boy scouts. Oh woe for them...

and their problem. Even killing instructors are having a bad time. We need to become more war like and start a few more wars ...that will help our jobs situation and our economy.

[Bennyboy]

22. No, I learned to shoot as a very young child...

the fact that a kid can acquire and sell that weapon makes me sick. A kid that is not old enough to drive, drink of make any decision for himself can openly carry a weapon and trade in it without any background checks MAKES ME SICK.

[Recursion]

23. This is California. He can neither buy nor sell that gun.

Also, remember California has an assault weapons ban, under which that gun is legal (which is why it looks different from a normal AR).

[Throd]

17. Well, it Looks like The Bee got exactly what they wanted from you.

[X_Digger]

29. Is "AR-15" the new name for any gun folks don't like?

This is not an AR-15, it's a semi-auto .308.

The only difference between that gun and a remington woodmaster 750 is that this one has wood instead of plastic, and a pistol grip.

[SQUEE]

19. I am just glad he hasnt desecrated that FAL with a bullet button.

Says in the article he was selling it, probably got quite the pile of cash for it, enough for an actual AR, and a case of ammo.

[Lex]

21. Gun suckers

for the NRA.

[stillcool]

31. one line caught my attention...

'One law is too many laws'.