Why are shooting sports still allowed at the Olympics?

[Uponthegears]

199. Not to be flippant

But you could say the same thing about a penis.

Sometimes, "within the system" liberals are prone to objectify certain problems because they are scared of the political ramifications of being honest. Your attack on Olympic shooting competition is a good example. Using a gun for a non-violent purpose (here, punching little holes into a paper target) is a good thing. Indeed, it might be seen as the proverbial "turning swords into plowshares." Rather than discuss that distinction, however, you remove the piece of paper, replace it with Kindergartners at Sandy Hook, movie goers in Aurora, cops in Ferguson, "neighborhood watchers" in Sanford, and clubbers in Orlando, and simply proclaim "Gun's bad." Unfortunately for OUR cause, you do nothing to change the excited teenager who spent thousands of hours to do something to honor her grandfather into George Zimmerman. That incongruency turns your meme into something that is very nearly laughable.

The more courageous and accurate path is to explain the difference between those two shooters. I say "courageous" because discussing the roots and the origins of the self-protection mentality requires good solid Democrats to admit that they themselves, in some cases, and a huge swath of the voting populace, in any event, accept as true the fairly clearly racist premise that they, in their privileged suburban worlds, are in danger. They are not. The myth of suburban crime is a mere continuation of the fear in the plantation big house that those who they have oppressed with rise up, break down the doors, and do with them what they will. It is a collection of a handful anecdotal stories of victimized white suburbanites combined with crime statistics which include crimes against the very people those white suburbanites continue to enslave.

No one, of course, will say that. Those people still living in the big house and cueing up at the local gun shop to pick up their Sig 9mm are voters and they are donors and they are deniers of the privilege under which they live.