LOIE
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- May 11, 2017
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I once knew an older black man who had been born and raised in the inner city. "Back in the day," he would say, when there was a disagreement there would be a fight. If the neighborhood knew that someone had raped a girl, they would get together, take him out back and beat the crap out of him. If there was a turf problem, there would be an all out rumble or a one on one fight between the top guys in each gang. People were seldom killed. Injured, yes, but seldom killed.We have an inner city gang and thug problem.
Get rid of those and gun crimes almost become nonexistent.
And no getting rid of guns won't help because criminals dont follow our laws.
All you're doing is punishing the law abiding and making them easy targets as we see in Chicago.
When drugs flooded the inner city things changed. Soon after the drugs came the guns. Did the neighborhood guys manufacture and move the guns into their neighborhood? No, they were brought in by outsiders, just like the drugs were. The guys in the hood are not the manufacturers of drugs and guns. They are often caught and jailed for using them, but the ones up top who provide them are seldom if ever held to account. They just get richer and richer off of the sale of their products.
I hope you understand that when you say "our laws" I know you mean the white man's laws. Because unjust laws have been common in the U.S. - like Jim Crow laws and laws that designated some people to be only 3/5 human and laws that justified lynchings and created a police force to hunt down and kill runaway slaves. Or how about laws that have greater penalties for crack used on the streets than for the cocaine used on wall street? Or laws that lock up someone for small amounts of weed and allow doctors to over prescribe oxy. As stated in the movie The Great Debaters, "St. Augustine said "An unjust law is no law at all."