[Mr Rogers]

This is the pertinent part:

“A national database of patients younger than 20 who were admitted to hospitals in 2009 shows that boys represented nearly 90% of the total...the rate of gunshot-related hospitalizations for African American males was 10 times that of white males.

Blacks ages 15 to 19 were 13 times more likely than their white peers to be injured by gunfire.”

IOW, it has nothing to do with accidents. It has a great deal to do with criminal activity in the inner cities. It is sad, but it has nothing to do with law-abiding people owning guns.

[jazusamo]

Exactly...It has everything to do with young gang members shooting or getting shot by other gang members.

Melissa Healy should take up a profession other than journalism, she’s a hack.

[RandallFlagg]

IOW, it has nothing to do with accidents. It has a great deal to do with criminal activity in the inner cities. It is sad, but it has nothing to do with law-abiding people owning guns.

BINGO!!!

[Oberon]

"Blacks ages 15 to 19 were 13 times more likely than their white peers to be injured by gunfire."

So not only are guns evil and dangerous, they're RACIST as well...?

[MileHi]

Blacks ages 15 to 19 were 13 times more likely than their white peers to be injured by gunfire.”

There is a nagging inconvenient political and demographic component to violence committed with firearms.