On 2012-12-17, at 6:25 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Marv Gandall writes:
>
>> The link between US white racism and the widespread access to,
>> and abuse of, gun ownership by troubled whites has not, to my
>> knowledge, been the subject of much media commentary, inadvertently
>> or otherwise.
>
> That's because the link isn't there in the same way that, say, the widespread use and abuse of oxycontin is. There is no "widespread abuse" of guns in the US, among racist whites or any other category.
Bad sentence construction. There is a link between widespread access to gun ownership, and abuse of gun ownership by troubled whites...