{"id":653,"date":"2025-09-29T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:23:16","slug":"the-problem-aint-guns-its-white-men-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Ain\u2019t Guns, It\u2019s White Men with Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Remember Minority Report<\/em> with Tom Cruise? The precogs could predict who was going to commit murder and the cops would swoop in before it happened. Crime nearly vanished because they followed the pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t even need precogs. We already know the pattern. The majority of mass shooters in America look the same. White. Male. Angry. The suburbs. The dog in the yard. The June and Ward Cleaver family portrait. The so-called \u201cnormal.\u201d The stereotype of violent criminals has been shattered \u2014 but we continue to pretend, WE DON\u2019T KNOW THE ANSWER!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet every time another massacre happens, the media and politicians trip over themselves pretending they don\u2019t see it. Pretending that if we just chant \u201cSecond Amendment\u201d and send thoughts and prayers, the bodies will stop piling up. But the truth is statistical, not speculative. The profile isn\u2019t a mystery. It\u2019s a mirror America refuses to look into. (And if you want the receipts, I already laid out the numbers in Shooters<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the part nobody in power will say out loud: the Republican talking point has always been, \u201cIt\u2019s not the guns, it\u2019s the people.\u201d<\/em> But notice how the white<\/strong> is always silent in that sentence. They\u2019ll rail about mental health, video games, single mothers, the internet \u2014 anything but the obvious. Anything but the statistical fact staring them dead in the face. Because if they ever said it plain \u2014 the people are overwhelmingly white men<\/em> \u2014 the whole lie of who\u2019s dangerous in America would collapse overnight. Bet the Supreme Court won\u2019t rule<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the country really wanted to eliminate violent crime, it wouldn\u2019t be staging militarized theater downtown for cameras. We watched footage of troops in full riot gear detaining a Latino family in Chicago for walking<\/em>. That\u2019s the show. That\u2019s the optics. That\u2019s the devil\u2019s trick. Meanwhile, in Grand Blanc Township \u2014 76% white \u2014 the carnage played out right on cue, exactly the way the profile predicts. If the energy put into downtown spectacle was directed where the shooters are actually produced, lives could have been saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also believe no child is born with hatred in their hearts, hate is taught. Forget that bullshit about these poor white boys being \u201cradicalized\u201d if there was love in their homes, love for EVERYBODY they couldn\u2019t be turned into a killing machine by the internet. Their white daddies could be the ones indoctrinating the sons to hate \u2013 telling them the \u201cothers\u201d are taking your jobs, taking your rightful place in America, your privilege, they\u2019re eating the dogs, they are raping your future wife. Now let\u2019s go to the gun range (for sport). Your 2nd<\/sup> amendment right must be protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem isn\u2019t just guns. Guns exist everywhere. The problem is white men with guns, protected by the shield of innocence America drapes over them. Protected by a system that refuses to apply its own profile where it fits best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that one of the most dangerous places to gather is church; whose god is winning? Evidently, it\u2019s not the god of the white man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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