I think Zer0 should put more energy into curbing gangland activity. A breakdown of the Chicago killing fields shows that 83% of those murdered in Chicago last year had criminal records. In Philly, it’s 75%. In Milwaukee it’s 77% percent. In New Orleans, it’s 64%. In Baltimore, it’s 91%. Many were felons who had served time. And as many as 80% of the homicides were gang related. Nearly a quarter of our nation’s murders come from the following cities:
Chicago (422), New York City (333), Detroit(332),Los Angeles (255), Philadelphia (246), Baltimore (234), Houston (201), New Orleans (155), Memphis (150) and Dallas(137).
The above cities do not show how high their murder rate is compared to the population. For instance, Chicago’s murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 is way over the American average of a 4.2 rate. Chicago’s rate compares to Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. And, New Orleans has an incredible 72.8 murder rate!
The gangs that drive these wild murder rates get their guns like they get their drugs. Guns come through the same network that stretches from these homicide capitols down to South America. The only way to eliminate the guns is to stop the drug trafficking.
The gang members show no resemblance to the suburban kid who is off his meds and decides to shoot up the school. America has more gangland murders than Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Puerto Rico combined. Our murder rate now largely consists of criminals killing criminals. And these criminals are the result of broken homes, high out of wedlock births and Zer0’s unemployment rate for black youths.
For those politicians who try to deflect the gun violence on some imaginary view that crazed people have guns is a scam. These politicians do no want to focus on the real problem: illegal drug trafficking by gangs. And I suspect these politicians are being caught up in the illegal drug industry and do not want their gravy train to end from drug kingpins lining their pockets.
“I think Zer0 should put more energy into curbing gangland activity.”
Best analysis I’ve read in a long time, and as you point out, the government, at all levels, seems ineffective ( or more probably unwilling ) to tackle the problem because it involves hard work and huge pressure on the AA “community.” They need to go at this problem like Elliot Ness did nearly a century ago.
Likewise it would make more sense for his blushing bride to do so rather than prattling on as she does about diet and exercise.
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