Why more Black people are looking for safety in gun ownership

NBC News ^ | June 14, 2022 | Curtis Bunn

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The FBI has made it official: 2020 saw the biggest spike in murders in American history—30 percent. The year that saw Black Lives Matter-inspired racial turbulence on a scale that hadn’t been seen since 1968 blew past that year’s previous record murder spike of 12 percent.

That is an extra 5,000 Americans killed in 2020, a majority of them African-Americans, as they make up 53 percent of homicide victims. All told, this brings the number of extra Americans murdered since 2014—the year Black Lives Matter’s founders gathered with other far-leftist groups in the city of Ferguson, MO, to organize a nationwide movement with revolutionary demands—to perhaps more than 11,000.

The New York Times wrote about the FBI report last week after its eagle-eyed crime writer Jeff Asher noticed that the FBI had posted the information online briefly before being taken down. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report, where the information was contained, was published on Monday, Sept. 27. The Atlantic and other publications followed the Times’ lead.

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/what-the-media-doesnt-want-you-know-about-2020s-record-murder-spike

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FLOYD MURDERED FLOYD WITH FENTYNAL.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

1 The FBI has made it official: 2020 saw the biggest spike in murders in American history—30 percent.

2 That is an extra 5,000 Americans killed in 2020, a majority of them African-Americans, as they make up 53 percent of homicide victims.

3 The reason for 2020’s extra deaths, as Bader said, was that, “incarceration rates fell, police manpower shrank, and anti-police protests spread across the nation.”

[struggle]

My FFL is black.

Anyone that doesn’t have a gun right now is insane.

[Fiji Hill]

Note that they capitalize “black” but not “white.”

[NorthMountain]

Attn black Americans: Don’t buy guns unless you QUIT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!!!! Hypocrisy is most unbecoming ...

[T.B. Yoits]

Black Americans had the highest opposition to “defund the police”. They know they’re the victims of these criminals.

[DoodleDawg]

Both of these characters were responsible for their own deaths.

So say Arbery had been legally carrying his own weapon and upon being accosted by two armed white guys had pulled it out and shot them both, do you think he would have gotten off on self defense?

[nwrep]

Not sure about that. There are a lot of anti-Republican gun owners.

[flamberge]

So say, Arbery had been legally carrying his own weapon and upon being accosted by two armed white guys had pulled it out and shot them both, do you think he would have gotten off on self-defense?

Yes.

In the case that you post, I believe there would most likely have been an acquittal, based on "self-defense".

[NetAddicted]

I can’t remember exactly what I heard, but today I heard gun murders are the #1 killer of African-Americans.

[Svartalfiar]

There were 2,755 reported incidents targeting Black people in the U.S. that year, the most besieged racial group by a large margin.Well yea, you create a "crime" that's designed for and only reported on, on-black crime, you can bet they'll be the "racial" group with the highest number of incidents!

[Lurker]

Just wait till he finds out that getting a license to carry in his jurisdiction is almost impossible.

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[JimRed]

Gun safety is having one when you need it and using it effectively.

[JimRed]

To that point, anti-Black hate crimes rose nearly 40 percent in 2020...

That's because they've designated so many things as hate crimes, besides actual assaults. Even misgendering is a hate crime now!