I am not a sociologist but even I can see that the Black community has a serious problem with firearms. I don’t know why this I just see it as obvious to all who look without bias at their culture.
I don’t know why someone would choose to settle anger with violence or use the threat of a firearm to commit a crime. These are two things that the Black community is known for.
Yes, I know none of this is PC. If it upsets anyone just ask the Moderator to delete the post.
It doesn't upset me, and as someone who attended inner city schools (who is also no sociologist) I will agree that Black people are more prone to settle issues with violence -- with and without firearms -- than white people are. I will also admit Black people commit a disproportionate number of crimes: no one can deny that. The statistics are what they are. My point is that law abiding people of any color should not be denied access to weapons. The right to keep and bear arms -- to defend ourselves -- is a right endowed us by our Creator which no temporal power may presume upon itself the power to take away.
Even as a practical and purely selfish matter, this is my right and I'm not giving it up. You know how these things go: if we allow that the government may withhold 2nd Amendment Rights in the inner city, the argument will not be that we can retain them in the countryside, but rather, that the 14th Amendment requires "equal protection." That means no guns for anybody.
If a certain number of criminals -- many career felons who have already lost their right to keep and bear arms through due process -- need to die to protect my right to keep and bear arms, it seems a small price to pay; if society will not send them to the gas chamber where they belong, they can kill each other for all I care.
This point of view is not PC either: our posts can be deleted together.
Dig deeper, not a black or white issue. I would bet a weeks pay that the shooter in those crimes did not have a father figure in their life. The gang becomes their family and the alpha male then becomes the father figure.
Dad's role has ceased to exits in many urban areas and that has lead to misdirected youth's.
Want to “fix” America? Get dad's back in charge of the household! Broadly speaking Mom's are not physically equipped to reign in a 15 year old male youth.