It may not be all that well articulated and it may be somewhat offensive if your white feelings are sensitive.
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White people took the land that is now the US by force.
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White people were capable of taking this land not because they were better, or smarter, or deserved it, or anything like that.
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They had invented guns. That's it. White people could take other people's land because they had guns and the other people didn't.
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They also had the desire to go take other people's land and do whatever horrible things were necessary in order to accomplish that goal.
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That ruthlessness/motive/cruelty and those guns are the only reasons white people were able to steal this land.
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Guns are the root of white people's power, always have been.
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White people like to tell a fiction that we're smarter, harder working, living God's plan, whatever. It's not true.
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And deep down people know that. They know that guns are the only reason we're on top. So they don't want to give that up.
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The obsession with guns is inextricably connected to the obsession with maintaining white supremacy.
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They're afraid of other people doing to them what they've done to others.
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They're afraid that if they don't have guns, other people will steal from them what they stole first.
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They're afraid others will subjugate them like they subjugated others.
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Some people are saying smallpox but like... the transatlantic slave trade was not started with smallpox.
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Jim Crow wasn't enforced with smallpox, the prison industrial system isn't currently enforced through smallpox.
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And smallpox didn't happen all on accident. White people gave smallpox infected blankets to native people to infect them on purpose.
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White Europeans created colonies all over the world - subjugating native people - because they had guns and the will to use them.
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I'm not really sure why people are arguing with me about this, it's a theory. It's not provable. Of course other factors play in.
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It's one way to look at the gun obsession that makes sense to me. If you don't like it, that's fine. I gotta go get some work done.
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