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To: HairOfTheDog
Sorry you didn't have the attention span to get the actual point of my post.

I got your point, I just disagree with it. Racial bigotry is a despicable thing, but that doesn't mean we should overlook lawless behavior in a mistaken effort to somehow compensate for what happened in the past by ignoring the truth about what is happening in the present.

The illegal use of guns by criminals of all races does more damage to our right to keep and bear arms than almost anything else because it causes a frightened population to want the false security of a gun-free society. As long as we pretend not to notice the predominate factor in our high crime rate, i.e., the inordinately high percentage of minority youth involved in violent crime, we will never make much progress at reducing that rate. And unless we get it under control the hue and cry for more gun laws wil only grow louder.

Maybe I'm a bit too quick to react to posts that IMO are designed primarily to show off the lack of bias and the open mindedness of the poster, but I have had it up to here with such PC nonsense. Facing reality is not racism.

51 posted on 06/13/2004 11:24:24 PM PDT by epow
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To: epow

You haven't shown how the race of the victim, or the perpetrator, is an issue at all in this story or in the wider debate on gun control, the Second Amendment, or public safety.


53 posted on 06/13/2004 11:27:04 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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