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Some guy
decided to drive to Kenosha

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with his militia buddies
to "protect a business"

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and apparently ended up shooting
three people and killing two.

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But don't worry,
the business is okay.

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And let me tell you something.

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No one drives into a city
with guns

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because they love someone else's
business that much.

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That's some bullshit.

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No one has ever thought,
"Oh, it's my solemn duty

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to pick up a rifle
and protect that T.J.Maxx."

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They do it because
they're hoping to shoot someone.

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That's the only reason
people like him

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join these gangs
in the first place.

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And yes, I said it, a gang.

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Enough
with this "militia" bullshit.

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This isn't
the Battle of Yorktown.

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It's a bunch of dudes
threatening people with guns.

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And while what happened

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with those shootings last night
is tragic,

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what happened afterwards
is illuminating.

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Because it made me wonder,
it really made me wonder

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why some people
get shot seven times in the back

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while other people
are treated like human beings

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and reasoned with
and taken into custody

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with no bullets in their bodies.

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How come Jacob Blake
was seen as a deadly threat

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for a theoretical gun
that he might have

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and might try
to commit a crime with,

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but this gunman who was armed
and had already shot people,

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who had shown
that he is a threat

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was arrested the next day,

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given full due process
of the law

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and generally treated like a
human being whose life matters?

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How did Dylann Roof
shoot up a church,

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James Holmes
shoot up a movie theater

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and both live to tell about it?

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Why is it that the police decide

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that some threats
must be extinguished immediately

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while other threats get
the privilege of being defused?

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I'm asking these as questions,

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but I feel like
we know the answer.

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The answer is that the gun

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doesn't matter as much
as who is holding the gun.

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Because for some people,

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black skin is the most
threatening weapon of all.