Online Petition Calls For End To ‘Black Targets’ At Shooting

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>>33152100

The Change.org petition called on the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors to ditch the traditional black silhouette targets commonly used to train officers at police academies, among other “instruction environments.”

“Unconscious bias can be deadly, and we need to fight the deadly epidemic of gun violence towards black people,” the petition states. “Getting rid of black targets at shooting ranges and replacing them with variations of more diverse target designs, changing from the negative stimulus shown in the study above.”

As for the petition’s solution to the perceived problem? The group calls on artists from “diverse background” to create new targets “where there is more paint and less hate.”

So is it true that more black people are victims to gun violence than white people?

According to a July 2016 Washington Post report, the answer is complicated:

cont.

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>>33152112

According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.

Nevertheless, the Change.org petition is intent on getting rid of black silhouette targets at shooting ranges.

The group behind the petition, No More Black Targets, which describes itself as “an advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the danger of unconscious bias and how it may be perpetuating gun violence against young black males,”showcases a variety of artwork on its website and encourages supporters to create their own colorful expressions to potentially replace the black silhouettes.

The Change.org petition had just 220 signees as of Sunday afternoon. The group states on the website that it intends to deliver the names to International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors.

The IALEFI did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment from TheBlaze asking if it plans to yield to the online protesters’ demands.

FIN

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When will it end

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>>33152133

Human form targets (i.e. bad guy targets) have been banned at Michigan DNR run gun rangers for years now.

You can use a solid color IPSC type paper target but not something like pic related;

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>>33152243
>solid color IPSC type paper target

>>33152100
> despite being far less in proportion of the population, blacks are shot more than whites

HMMM, ITS ALMOST LIKE BLACKS COMMIT A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF CRIME, BUT NO IT MUST BE BECAUSE RACIST WHITE PEOPLE USE BLACK TARGETS AT THE RANGE

Fuck this gay earth

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>>33152100
Will Trump ban orange targets?

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>>33152100
That's it. I'm buying a commercial reprographics printer, andI'm only going to shoot at life size pictures of Fat Albert from now on.

>>33152256
This is racist.

>>33152243
This is not.

Really works the bolt, doesn't it?

>>33152816
Send me some, could turn into a good business

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A vast improvement.

>>33152100
Why is the black community and further more the left so self centered and narcissistic? Why do they demand EVERYTHING is changed to fit their needs , while giving 0 fucks about any other individuals? You see it bad in black communities, the feminists communities, the left in general. Human sovereign, individuality is a dead concept to them. It's really fucking scary man

Why do you even look at TheBlaze? Tools of the globalists and hillbots pretending to like guns.

>>33153047
That's actually pretty neat.

>>33153047
hearts on the wrong side wtf

>>33152100
>“relative to white targets, participants were quicker to shoot armed black targets, slower to not shoot unarmed Black targets and more likely to have a liberal shooting threshold for Black targets.”
>CNN

I did a paper on this back in college. The studies I found stated the opposite: people were less likely to shoot unarmed black people and were slower when it came to shooting armed black people.

https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/02/deadly-force-lab-finds-racial-disparities-in-shootings/

Of course CNN is going to find the opposite.

>>33153389
its on the right and its facing you

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>>33153111
>It's really fucking scary man

The sins of the special snowflakes and their helicopter parents are coming home to roost...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2002854/
JUN 16, 2016

Dem Senator Says Due Process 'Killing Us'

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...." Senator Joe Manchin isn't sure the belief that one is innocent until proven guilty is always such a good idea. On Thursday, The West Virginia Democrat said the principle of due process is "killing us."

"The problem we have—and really, the firewall we have right now, is due process. It's all due process. So we can all say, 'yeah, we want the same thing,' but how do we get there. If a person is on a terrorist watch list like the gentleman—the shooter—in Orlando, he was, twice by the FBI, we were briefed yesterday about what happened.

But that man was brought in twice. They did everything they could. The FBI did everything they were supposed to do. But there was no way for them to keep him on the nix list or keep him off the gun buy list. There was no way to do that. So can't we say that if a person is under suspicion, there should be a five year period of time that we have to see if good behavior, if this person continues the same traits?

Maybe we can come to that type of an agreement. But due process is what's killing us right now."

I don't mind the change, just make it a color instead. The problem is that silhouettes in real life are dark in color. Add to this, ranges and people not wanting (bad guy) style targets, it ends up being either a solid color or nothing. The point, to me, of silhouettes is to familiarize shooters to shooting human shaped objects. How do you do this and please everyone? "Making up new kinds" just muddies up the water.
>>33152130
>220 signees
Seems like the support of this idea doesn't have much going for it.

>>33153491
Does that mean we can find him "guilty until proven innocent" of trying to destroy the rights of American citizens?

My Mexican friend said they should make them brown and see if more Mexicans are shot.

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Can we make this the new standard target?

>>33152100
Boy, I'm sure glad that they've solved black-on-black crime and can get working on the less serious issues now.

>>33153413
Just because they're harder to see, probably.

>>33153047
7/10
Would shoot

>>33153111
>individuality is a dead concept to them

Such is collectivism. When a person joins a collective, that person surrenders their individuality and then goes through the process of identity death, the end product being a mouthpiece for the collective. A drone with no will. At which point one would be hard pressed to consider them people.

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>>33153047

why would you want to shoot someone with dextrocardia and what appears to be only one functional kidney?

For gods sake the man has almost a solid 6 inches of dead space in his abdomen! What punishment could you deliver that is worse than his own existence?

>>33153455

The heart is precariously balanced over the liver, which means it isn't Kartenagers.

>>33152100
They act like the target has big red lips, an afro, and gold teeth instead of it being simply a silhouette meant to represent any color person.

>>33153111
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWmMfjaXlc

>>33152100
>replace completely neutral, unbiased matte black target with negro / african cultural artwork, etc.

these people try really hard to prove to everyone that theyre complete idiots