2aguy
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The reason that more blacks and latinos are the majority of victims of gun violence? Because they are in gangs and shooting each other over drug turf, personal insults on facebook, or over girlfriends......
Murder Inequality? Does That Make Gun Rights Racist? - The Truth About Guns
that Daily News investigation simply points out that some neighborhoods have more violent crime — and thus more firearms-related homicides — than others. It does not highlight the race of the victims.
The Trace’s editor, however, noticed that all of the victims were black or latino, and immediately jumped-up on one of the antis’ favorite hobby horses: the lack of gun control is racist! Which is, it must be said, the exact opposite of the truth. American gun control laws were born from racism. And remain racist.
The Trace fails to trace that connection. Instead, they sugar-coat the fact that it’s gang banging that’s causing all but a fraction of the firearms-related homicides in these high-crime neighborhoods.
Among the dead were young men caught up in cycles of neighborhood violence, like Lewis Encarnacion of East Harlem. As disputes between residents of different housing projects in his neighborhood mounted this past September, Encarnacion told a friend he feared for his life, and that he urgently wanted to tell his mother he loved her. He was shot and killed later that day.
Disputes between residents of different housing projects? Disputes? Is that what you call turf wars between young men thugs fighting to control the drug trade and other illegal activities?
Murder Inequality? Does That Make Gun Rights Racist? - The Truth About Guns
that Daily News investigation simply points out that some neighborhoods have more violent crime — and thus more firearms-related homicides — than others. It does not highlight the race of the victims.
The Trace’s editor, however, noticed that all of the victims were black or latino, and immediately jumped-up on one of the antis’ favorite hobby horses: the lack of gun control is racist! Which is, it must be said, the exact opposite of the truth. American gun control laws were born from racism. And remain racist.
The Trace fails to trace that connection. Instead, they sugar-coat the fact that it’s gang banging that’s causing all but a fraction of the firearms-related homicides in these high-crime neighborhoods.
Among the dead were young men caught up in cycles of neighborhood violence, like Lewis Encarnacion of East Harlem. As disputes between residents of different housing projects in his neighborhood mounted this past September, Encarnacion told a friend he feared for his life, and that he urgently wanted to tell his mother he loved her. He was shot and killed later that day.
Disputes between residents of different housing projects? Disputes? Is that what you call turf wars between young men thugs fighting to control the drug trade and other illegal activities?
