I was "fooled" by the bogus website for a minute or two.

I had a talk about guns with a Sheriff once, and he was very upset at the idea that people are against allowing gun access to the poor for their own self defense. Surprisingly, he opposed efforts to ban "cheap" guns. This banning of low cost guns was popular among gun grabbers back in the 80s and 90s.

He bristled at the underlying racism: the idea that "those people" in poorer neighborhoods shouldn't be allowed protection.

He went on to say that honest law abiding poor people often live in tough areas, and need self defense more than the rest of us do, and often they live paycheck to paycheck and they can't afford a decent gun with which to protect themselves.

That conversation stuck with me. When I saw the bogus webpage, I thought for a minute that someone was finally seeing that the underprivileged have a right to defend themselves, and living in tough areas they a greater imperative to do so.

Ends up, these gun grabbers running the phony site are applying the same thinly-veiled racist boogeyman that irritates this Sheriff: seems to me they are trying to scare people with the idea that <ahem> "poor" people - y'know 'urban' people, etc - can get guns.

But let's not read into it. Even though I think they are invoking racism, let's take the site at face value. Still there's a scary proposition at work here: The idea that low income people are "undesirables."

This is hand wringing liberalism at its finest (and I'm a bit of a liberal, but I call it like I see it). The idea that liberals always say they are for helping the poor, and for helping minorities who sometimes don't get a fair shake ... but at the same time, these same liberals feel that the poor and people of color are not really trustworthy - not really "good" people.