tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post6766732428806498324..comments2024-03-28T00:27:14.676-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: America doesn't have a gun problem, it hasFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-28802603035277849572013-01-02T14:33:31.930-08:002013-01-02T14:33:31.930-08:00Pointing out inconvenient facts is, variously, rac...Pointing out inconvenient facts is, variously, racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, xenophobic, intolerant, or generally bigoted, depending on where the pointer of the spinner stops. Under today's media regime, that little boy in "The Emperor's New Clothes" had one chance to recant, or he'd be on Thorazine in a mental hospital under a fictitious name for the rest of his life!Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-13297753553265394432013-01-01T13:31:47.497-08:002013-01-01T13:31:47.497-08:00I agree with the summary of the figures, as does t...I agree with the summary of the figures, as does the US DOJ<br /><br />http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm<br /><br />(notice that the DOJ's graphs have not been updated to show the continuing declines in homicide rate since the last law banning guns with cosmetics that might frighten a socialist politician, expired)<br /><br />However once you start to break the aggregates of "black" and "white" down, the picture disappears; it is more "young, urban, male, unemployed" <br /><br />which happens, <br /><br />thanks to minimum wages (state and labour union imposed), crap state sector schools, welfare dependency that discriminates against forming stable families, disincentive to provide private sector rental housing etc etc etc<br /><br />to be predominantly black<br /><br />add in the money to be made in the (different meaning of black) black market, due to prohibition.<br /><br />add in again, that the cops work to prevent a stable system of street level supply from getting established <br /><br />you no longer need to deal with an Al Capone character if you want a bottle of scotch, what would be different if drugs prohibition ended?<br /><br />Don't fall for the "them versus us" division that the politicians of both colours want to exploit.<br /><br />Harangue the politicians and the labour union thugs for the problems of minimum wage and welfare subsidies for dysfunctionality keeping people unemployed and anti social,<br /><br />and for prohibition encouraging gangsterism<br /><br />The deep Irony is, if guns are prohibited, your friendly local drug pusher could end up being your best source of ammoLuton Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-17106047226223566612013-01-01T12:11:16.838-08:002013-01-01T12:11:16.838-08:00I think the time is coming when we're going to...I think the time is coming when we're going to have to <i>embrace</i> racism, rather than run from it. We often hear of "the racist origins of gun control." Well, maybe those racists had a point. It's not the white NRA member who's causing the inflated murder statistics in the country, it's the urban gangbanger, and we need to start pointing it out, and pushing back hard when the race card is played.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.com