07-24-2015, 03:59 PM
In Chicago - Obama's hometown and a place with some of the strictest gun laws in the country - there have been 1,432 homicides by firearm. Over 95% of the victims were black and hispanic, and nearly 90% of the victims were males. And that's just since 2012, including yesterday.
Looks to me like there is a pretty clear pattern of where the gun violence and gun homicides are happening, and it's not unique to Chicago. It's every metropolitan area in the country.
It's also likely not NRA members, or people with assault weapons... which are the popular boogeyman arguments. It's almost entirely handguns, and the vast majority of victims are black and hispanic.
But instead of addressing the real problem, blame gun violence.
If we could magically get rid of every single gun on the planet, the core problem that is causing the violence would remain. As would the violence, just in other forms. Guns are just one of the scapegoats for failed social policy.
Great Society my ass.
Looks to me like there is a pretty clear pattern of where the gun violence and gun homicides are happening, and it's not unique to Chicago. It's every metropolitan area in the country.
It's also likely not NRA members, or people with assault weapons... which are the popular boogeyman arguments. It's almost entirely handguns, and the vast majority of victims are black and hispanic.
But instead of addressing the real problem, blame gun violence.
If we could magically get rid of every single gun on the planet, the core problem that is causing the violence would remain. As would the violence, just in other forms. Guns are just one of the scapegoats for failed social policy.
Great Society my ass.