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The Guns of Obamerica
Sultan Knish ^ | January 20, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:22 AM PST by expat1000

Forget Wal-Mart and skip your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests at your local sporting goods store. They won't have NRA memberships or trophies on their walls.

You won't find them in America. Look for them in Obamerica.

67% of firearm murders took place in the country's 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those numbers are from six years ago. They have grown worse since.

Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. The places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. These are the places where the family is broken, money comes from the government and immigrants crowd in from some of the most violent parts of the world bringing with them their own organized crime. These are also the places that have run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.

Obama won every major city in the election, except for Jacksonville and Salt Lake City. And the higher the death rate, the bigger his victory. He won New Orleans by 80 to 17 where the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. He won Detroit, where the murder rate of 53 per 100,000 people is the second highest in the country and twice as high as any country in the world, including the Congo and South Africa. He won it 73 to 26. And then he celebrated his victory in Chicago where the murder rate is three times the statewide average.

These places aren't America. They're Obamerica.

In 2006, the 54% of the population living in those 50 metro areas was responsible for 67% of armed killings nationwide. Those are disproportionate numbers especially when you consider that for the people living in most of those cities walking into a store and legally buying a gun is all but impossible.

Mayors of Obamerican cities blame guns because it's easier than blaming people and now the President of Obamerica has turned to the same shameless tactic. The NRA counters that people kill people, but that's exactly why Obamerican leaders would rather talk about the guns.

Chicago, the capital of Obamerica, is a city run by gangs and politicians. It has 68,000 gang members, four times the number of police officers. Chicago politicians solicit the support of gang members in their campaigns, accepting laundered contributions from them, hiring their members and tipping them off about upcoming police raids. And their biggest favor to the gang bosses is doing nothing about the epidemic of gang violence.

80% of Chicago's murders are gang-related. But in 1999 when a bill came up in the Illinois State Senate to try anyone carrying out a firearm attack on school property as an adult, a law that would have affected gang members who often bring weapons to school, the future leader of Obamerica voted present. Had he not voted present, it is doubtful that he would have been reelected in an area where gang leaders wield a great deal of influence.

The majority of murders in the cities with the worst homicide rates are gang-related. And while it isn't always possible to be certain whether a killing was gang-related, the majority of homicide victims in city after city have been found to have criminal records.

In 2010, there were 11,078 firearm homicides in the United States and over 2,000 known gang-related killings, over 90% of which are carried out with firearms. Since 1981, Los Angeles alone has had 16,000 gang related homicides. That's more than twice the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and it's more than the number of Americans who died in the Mexican-American War.

This is what Obamerica looks like. It's a place where life is cheap and illegal guns are as available as illegal drugs. It's a series of war zones whose problem is not the supply of guns, but their own social dysfunction. It's the war that we aren't talking about, because it's easier to talk about the inanimate objects being used to fight that war.

Reformers in the twenties blamed the plight of the slums on the availability of liquor. They rammed through Prohibition for the entire country to fix the cities. The liquor went on flowing and the slums went on being slums. Gun control has been just as successful in healing the slums as whiskey control was. And like the dry reformers, gun control advocates insist on trying to apply their solution on a national level, when the problem is not nationwide.

There are, as John Edwards said, two Americas. America is a country that runs pretty well on its own. Gun sales in America do not lead to bursts of homicide. If the power goes out for an hour, there is no epidemic of looting. The new year isn't rung in at the morgue. Social dysfunction exists but it never affects the majority or even a sizable minority of the population.

And then there's Obamerica. Not all of Obamerica is broken, but a lot of it is. Obamerica has a big gap between the rich and the poor. Its middle class is always on the run. Its upper class retreats to fortresses. Its lower class is broken and constantly growing as its political machines feed off human misery and exploit social dysfunction to gain votes.

America does not have a gun violence problem. Obamerica does. And Obamerica has a gun violence problem for the same reason that it has a drug problem and a broken family problem. These social ills cannot be solved by banning something. The War on Guns is not going to fix the inner city just as the War on Drugs didn't. Rigid law enforcement can keep the numbers down, but does not deal with the causes of the violence.

Obamerica is a bad place. It has great restaurants and night clubs. It has a lot of noise and a lot of light. The next big thing in music will probably come out of there. It's where your kids probably dream of moving to when they're teenagers. But for all that it's fundamentally broken.

Democratic leaders and machines, combined with liberal social workers and justice crusaders have run Obamerica into the ground. Obamerican cities used to be the homes of industry and progress. Now they're places where young Black and Hispanic men kill each other in growing numbers.

In America, guns are used for target practice and for hunting, and on rare occasions for self-defense, but in Obamerica guns have only one purpose, as so many liberals have pointed out, like so many of the young men who walk the streets of Obamerica, they exist only to kill. The guns get blamed and the killers rotate through the revolving doors of an overburdened justice system. And then the politicians who sit around the table with gang leaders announce that they have a new initiative to get guns off the streets.

America does not need gun control. It is a mostly law-abiding place. And gun control cannot help Obamerica. Not when its murder rate is driven by gangs who have no trouble obtaining anything; whether it's legal in the United States or not.

What can help is talking about Obamerica. AIDS prevention was sabotaged by the claim that the disease was a general problem spreading through the population. It wasn't. Neither is gun violence. Despite the occasional exception created by high profile suburban shooting sprees, this is not an American problem. It’s an Obamerican problem.

Adam Lanza is as much of a plausible poster boy for gun violence, as Ryan White was for AIDS. A better poster boy for gun violence might be Jay-Z, who boasts of having been a drug dealer and claims to have shot his brother at the age of 12. The drug dealer to millionaire rapper is the Horatio Alger story of Obamerica. And Jay-Z can be seen partying with Obama, the political king of Obamerica touching base with its cultural king.

If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don't want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

That's what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica's death toll. It's buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and Liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obamerica. They are an indictment of Obama.

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency. It needs to have a conversation about funneling new immigrants from broken parts of the world into areas already suffering from high levels of unemployment and street violence.

Most of all this country needs to have a conversation about the direction it's headed in. We need to set aside the same old tired social justice rhetoric that has done nothing except train .001 percent of the young men and women of Obamerica to be community organizers and race card wielders and have a serious conversation about what is wrong with New Orleans, Detroit and Chicago.

Obama has become a role model to millions of people in the Black community. You can see posters and photos of him in every barbershop. If anyone can address these problems, it's him. But instead of trying to solve the problems of Obamerica, instead of doing something about the high levels of unemployment, the broken families and the glamorization of drug dealing and violent crime, he wimped out and picked a fight with the rural Americans that he derided as gun-clingers.

In the same hollow tradition of macho posturing common among the men responsible for much of the violence in Obamerica, he chose to show his power in a fight for dominance with a perceived rival, rather than give back to his community. Rather than looking to the hearts and minds of his followers, he went after the guns of those he sees as his enemies. That is what distinguishes a thug from a leader. Leaders uplift their people. Thugs use them up as cannon fodder in their own private power struggles.

The legacy of Martin Luther King reminds us that a leader speaks difficult truths even to his own people. There are such leaders in the Black community today. Obama is not one of them.

The guns of America, by and large, are not a threat to the innocent. The guns of Obamerica are. And the conversation that we need to have is about what can be done, not about the guns of Obamerica, but about its hearts and minds.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; blue; chicago; cities; danielgreenfield; democrats; detroit; guncontrol; obamaville; secondamendment

1 posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:26 AM PST by expat1000
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2 posted on 01/21/2013 5:06:59 AM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

This guy should be required reading for every American above the age of thirteen.


3 posted on 01/21/2013 5:13:24 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: csmusaret; expat1000
This guy should be required reading for every American above the age of thirteen.

You can say that again BUMP!

Thanks for posting. HOORAY Daniel Greenfield!

4 posted on 01/21/2013 5:36:39 AM PST by PGalt
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To: expat1000
Mr Greenfield is correct but he stops too short.
We already have an America and an Obamerica, so why not go ahead and separate them?
THEY can have a king (Broncho Bamma) and we can elect us a president. They can have the east coast, Great Lakes Region and the left Coast, because they already own them. We keep the heartland and the Gulf Coast.
5 posted on 01/21/2013 5:37:38 AM PST by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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To: expat1000

BM


6 posted on 01/21/2013 5:41:23 AM PST by deadrock
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To: csmusaret

I sent this to everyone in my address book.

I never read a more truthful article.

They can pass gun laws until hell freezes over, but Obamamerica will have guns and law abiding Americans won’t, and that is the plain truth.


7 posted on 01/21/2013 5:45:18 AM PST by Venturer
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To: expat1000; kingattax; yorkie; ExTexasRedhead

Dan hits it out of the park with this one.


8 posted on 01/21/2013 5:47:25 AM PST by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: expat1000

Good piece!!!


9 posted on 01/21/2013 5:49:34 AM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: expat1000

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family.

BTTT

(Magazine, not clip, but point well made)


10 posted on 01/21/2013 5:57:55 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: csmusaret; Venturer; Thorliveshere

>>This guy should be required reading for every American above the age of thirteen.

The logic, facts, and even talking points are there on this and a lot of other issues, and nobody lays them out better than Greenfield. Unfortunately nobody is presenting them to the public. Yes, they’ll never get the exposure they deserve, we all know that, but it could be better than it is now.

Daniel, I believe is not real comfortable live, like say Mark Styen is so interviews are probably unlikely.

But the personalities with large conservative followings, why aren’t they giving more exposure to Greenfield and these essays?

Rush, has quoted Daniel, what, once, I think. Hannity, - if he ever has, I never heard about it. I don’t think so. Sometimes I wonder if it’s professional jealously or not. Really I can’t think of any other reason these essays are not quoted on a very regular basis by these people.

Daniel quotes other people all the time - gives credit to others constantly. The weekly Friday Afternoon Roundups are filled with credited excerpts from other writers and blogs.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 6:12:12 AM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

“Not all of Obamerica is broken...”

Yes, it is. ALL of it. obamaerica has become a set of democrat fiefdoms run by the most corrupt of the corrupt politicians and so-called minority “leaders” in the history of man.
Their ‘leaders’ have sold them into virtual slavery over and over and over for their thirty pieces of silver. They carry the whips and shotguns for their corrupt masters as long as they can live in a nice house on the white side of town, have a limo, cheat the taxman, and every so often, get invited to a white party.
LOOK at them. Even the ‘reverend’ wright got his black church members to fork over MILLIONS so he could live in a white, gated community.
If the city you live in still somewhat decent, elect a black mayor. If you can live in your city at all after that, it will be by the skin of your teeth. Are your suburbs still relatively clean and well kept? Build some section 8 housing and watch your neighborhood become a crime infested ghetto.
No one will tell the truth about these things. And that is more than half the problem. Black ‘leaders don’t care about the people they claim to serve because they serve only themselves and exploit their own people. They don’t care how many black children die from gunshots, knife wounds, or abortion as long as they get their dues from the rats and their power stays intact.
There might be a couple of exceptions, but they are so few and far between they are barely worth mentioning.


12 posted on 01/21/2013 6:18:47 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: expat1000

“And the conversation that we need to have is about what can be done, not about the guns of Obamerica, but about its hearts and minds.”

OMISSION!

Regretfully, I must point out the obvious elephant not mentioned in the otherwise near perfect description of Obamerica. Greenfield omits any mention of the established fact of black population Intelligence Quotients, A.K.A “I.Q” scores.

On tests given for the last 100 years, black I.Q. test results consistently have about 40% scoring 80 or below.

Cognitively demanding positions are not within their ability.

How this issue of black population disadvantage due to lower intellectual function ability is discussed, let alone dealt with is the core issue. Has any research even been done to determine if those in the violent sub-population of urban black America are those with low I.Q. scores?

The drugs/crime issue can be easily dealt with by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs will bankrupt the present “War On Drugs” participants including, but not limited to:
1. ‘Drug warriors’ in a government issued uniform.
2. ‘Drug gang members’.
3. Lawyers, judges, the rest of the legal system drones.
4. Prison system workers.
5. Politicians profiteering from the present “War On Drugs”.

Don’t forget the other benefit of legalizing drugs - de-funding Islam’s opium farming to finished drug vertically integrated enterprise.

The real issue, carefully avoided by even Greenfield, is what can Americans with 8- and below I.Q. scores do to become productive members of America?

These low scoring black Americans are our fellow Americans, folks. By allowing illegal immigrants to swarm into America, we have illegally, and unfairly, and immorally subsidized foreign competition for jobs once held by our fellow Americans. This is bad enough when the job is one where substantial ability/I.Q is required.

Those in the population of normal and above can find something else to do. Such choices are NOT available to those with far less abilities/I.Q..

Illegal immigration is therefore inextricably linked with the issue of “What role for Americans with 80 and below I.Q.”.

More is at stake than so far listed above, as it is the author’s considered opinion that the race issue and the “War On Drugs” issue are being used by other nations to weaken and/or destroy America.

In case anyone has forgotten history, the Opium Wars in Chine are analogous to the present “War On Drugs”.

The difference is that the Opium Wars were used to suppress China and were forced upon China by other nations.

The equally destructive “War On Drugs” in present day America is being inflicted on us by the TREASONOUS right here in America.

We inaugurated one such member of the ‘treasonous class’ today.

“Also sprach Glades Guru”.

Translation: You heard it from GladesGuru, and on FreeRepublic.com.

So - get busy and contribute to Free Republic, which what makes such communication possible.

Bet yer butt, Bammy won’t send Jim Rob a check.


13 posted on 01/21/2013 6:49:39 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: GladesGuru

Correction to my earlier post:
“The real issue, carefully avoided by even Greenfield, is what can Americans with 8- and below I.Q. scores do to become productive members of America?”

Should be:
“The real issue, carefully avoided by even Greenfield, is what can Americans with 80 and below I.Q. scores do to become productive members of America?”

There is a difference between “8-” and “80”.

My apologies for the confusing typo.


14 posted on 01/21/2013 6:53:32 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: expat1000

We will NEVER have the national conversation needed. Not just the current Obamerica mentioned here, but all the regimes that pass as administrations are not in the business of doing what is right for America but acquiring more power and trying to hold on to it.

Our government is WAAAYYY too big to not be totally corrupt.


15 posted on 01/21/2013 7:57:37 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Pray for revival. <BCC><)
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To: expat1000

I have become a believer in the power of Twitter to spread the word. Everyone who has a Twitter account should post everything this guy writes. Follow him on Twitter and just retweet.


16 posted on 01/21/2013 8:25:20 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: expat1000; marktwain; sickoflibs; Liz; LucyT; Fred Nerks
If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don't want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

That's what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica's death toll. It's buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and Liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obamerica. They are an indictment of Obama.

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency.

ping

17 posted on 01/21/2013 8:25:43 AM PST by GOPJ ( Gang members breaking down YOUR door- daughter and wife screaming for help - Dems took YOUR gun....)
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To: proud American in Canada
If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don't want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

That's what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica's death toll. It's buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and Liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obamerica. They are an indictment of Obama.

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency.

18 posted on 01/21/2013 8:28:40 AM PST by GOPJ ( Gang members breaking down YOUR door- daughter and wife screaming for help - Dems took YOUR gun....)
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To: csmusaret

“I have become a believer in the power of Twitter to spread the word. Everyone who has a Twitter account should post everything this guy writes. Follow him on Twitter and just retweet.”

Daniel Greenfield@Sultanknish. I think he tweets links himself, so it’s just a matter of retweeting them. I don’t know much about Twitter but probably even just following him in itself would be helpful.


19 posted on 01/21/2013 5:00:34 PM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000; Joe Brower; Travis McGee; ATLDiver

Bumping. This really needs to get spread around in the wake of the Houston tech school shootings.


20 posted on 01/22/2013 1:28:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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