Posted on 12/06/2022 1:46:06 PM PST by rellimpank
Seventeen people were shot in Chicago this past weekend. Four of these individuals lost their lives. Tragically, this was just a normal weekend in the Windy City and many others, which are experiencing a spike in violent crime. And Black Americans are bearing the brunt of this violence.
The overall rate of gun violence reached a 28-year high last year with drastic increases in murders among Black men, according to an analysis of federal data conducted by the Wall Street Journal.
Some of this is not new; since 1990, rates of gun-related homicide have been highest among Black men in their twenties. And yet, after the highs of the 1990s, homicide rates plummeted, especially for Black men. What we're seeing now is a reversal of that trend.
> In 2021, there were 142 fatalities for every 100,000 Black Americans, a 74 percent increase since 2014 and a figure that dwarfs the homicide rate for other races. "Homicide rates are as much as 23 times higher among Black men, and as much as nearly four times higher among Hispanic men than among white men," the WSJ analysis found.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Always have been. But the sheep were too dumb to catch on.
“And Black Americans are bearing the brunt of this violence”
And Black Americans are perpetrating the brunt of this violence.
Melanated peoples live this way because they like it. If they didn’t like it, they would change it.
The very first idea of restricting guns in the US was intended to stop black people from arming themselves - pushed by the Democrats then as now.
The far left RATS are afraid that their race war could turn into a shooting war if they don’t confiscate all the guns. It’s just a bunch of awholes doing a lot of shouting right now but America is a ticking time bomb.
***intended to stop black people from arming themselves***
Which is why John Taney of the SCOTUS found blacks could not be US citizens. Dred Scot vs Sandford.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
Interesting problem. the link will not open in either Google or Duckgogo. Nor will any other links to the Dred Scott decision.
Since most inner-city/suburb black-on-black gun crime is due to drug/gang activity, it would seem most other victims are merely caught in the crossfire. Not sure how much good having a gun would do in those circumstances.
Since most inner-city/suburb black-on-black gun crime is due to drug/gang activity, it would seem most other victims are merely caught in the crossfire. Not sure how much good having a gun would do in those circumstances.
I've been pointing that out for twenty five years. And the ability, in all of the large Democrat Cities, to put Black Men in prison for practicing their God given 2nd Amendment Right for self-defense is the only proof needed.
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