And
for this, there are men, all White in my experience, who, I truly believe,
would kill a Black man for accompanying their daughters on a date. Most people have gone to the movie theater
and all people were born. It hurts
absolutely no one to go to a movie theater and, likewise, being born with Black
skin hurts no one. This is not a "false
equivalency". There's as much, or as
little, logic in punishing people for going to a movie theater as there is for
punishing someone because of skin color combined with an attraction to a
certain human being. In fact, and this
is to in no way play down the tragedy of July 20, if we absolutely had to
choose, it probably makes less sense to kill a person because of the color of
his skin and because of who he is attracted to than it makes for a deranged
person to walk into a movie theater and open fire.
Don't
get me wrong, they're both crazed and evil acts. And, again, this is not a false equivalency. It is every bit as crazy for a man to kill
either his daughter's date because that date has Black skin as it is for a man
to kill people in a movie theater. In
both cases, the killers have never taken the time to know those that they've
killed. The victims are obviously
thought of by the killers as not human and are merely silhouettes of human
beings. The victims in each case have
done nothing, with malice aforethought, to offend the killer.
Fathers
who say, "If she brings home (one of them), I'll kill him" or "I'll kill them"
or "I'll kill her" are no more and no less crazed than the man who walked into
a theater on July 20, 2012 and shot 12 people to death.
I
didn't take any room in this article to address semiautomatic weapons and the
NRA's insistence that they are what those who wrote the Second Amendment to The
Constitution had in mind because the mere premise is batshit crazy. However, British comedian Eddie Izzard uses a
line in one of his acts. The line is, "The
NRA says guns don't kill people, people kill people, but I think the gun helps."
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