My father, grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather never owned slaves.
My great great grandfather, (1817-1902) never owned any guns, ever, that the family is aware of.
My great grandfather owned a firearm to protect against attacks by unhappy Americans in San Pete County. My grandfather owned a rifle to control predators in Alberta, Canada, my father owned a rifle and a shotgun to shoot predators, vermin and upland game for fun and food. I own rifles and handguns for hunting big game, vermin and a shoot gun for upland game, also, different from my father and grandfather, but like my great father, I now also own fire arms to protect my self and my wife from unhappy Americans.
So….. as a people, we’ve come full circle. My white father and white grandfather never felt threatened by unhappy Americans or Canadians, so their guns were not purchased or owned for protection because they never had the least bit of concern for their personal or family safety but, both my great grandfather and myself do feel threaten, and we have both responded to the threat by owning guns. How is it my father and grandfather are not racists and my great grandfather and I are? Or maybe unhappy Americans are the stimulating factor for the purchase and ownership without regard for nationality or the color of their skin……and has nothing what ever to do with racism? I am personally just as concerned about my safety from white, black, brown, and yellow, without any one race more than another.
So how does that make me or my great great grandfather racist?
Asking for a confused friend……..
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