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The only person doing this mental chase here is you. Why don't you just come out and say what you mean?

If you're really this confrontational about "the color" black being tied to darkness since pre-history (not much of a stretch there) and the significance of darkness being the physical manifestation of something like "evil" (also since pre-history) EDIT: and why "evil" is "intimidating", then nobody should take your contributions to this discussion seriously.

EDIT: I just don't understand how your response of "if black is intimidating, why do they paint them tan for military use" is in any way an honest argument. Did you simply not even think of camouflage? There are more important tactical advantages in warfare than intimidation. And now I feel like I did the job that darkserside was trying to avoid.

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Nope, you see I’ve been on the black isn’t evil argument for a while because I own various black colored guns. It’s a pretty common argument to say the black guns are scary yet nobody can explain why. So again, why do you think black makes it scary or intimidating?

I have, in fact if you see my replies to others you’ll see me point out that very thing. But people are going around saying the goal of painting it black is to be intimidating. If that were true then why doesn’t the military use the same tactic when they do want to look intimidating? This would imply it’s used for camo, like you said.

It’s not a race thing, don’t take it there because I most definitely am not.

Thank you, and I'm sorry!

No I’m sorry. We still don’t have a reason why grown adults are scared of a color and we can’t even talk about it without it becoming a race thing. What a world the democrats have made.

I didn't make it a race thing. With all due respect, which is very little based on your comportment in this discussion, kindly find another community to flame.

what exactly are you talking about? Read. nobody but you two are making it a race thing. It’s a simple question, why does the color black make something look intimidating. You said it first and now you’re trying to make it a race thing to avoid explaining why the color black is scary on a gun. If you can answer a non racial question about a color then perhaps you should grow up?

Let’s make this real simple for you two what makes a black gun more scary or dangerous than one painted pastel? A rational human would say there’s no difference. A gun is a gun. But you have a certain class of people claiming very interesting and dangerous things about the looks of items. It has nothing to do with color, nobody is overtly calling you a racist, it’s a question to find out why you think the way you do because maybe public education on why guns are black is warranted.

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