Jazzman: You have a post above showing the homicide rates in some major American cities. I’d like to point out some additional statistics as well, but the current Politically Correct doxa prevents me from doing so, lest I be accused of racism.
Let’s face it, in certain American cities, gun violence (and violence in general) is not the problem, it’s a symptom and one that is studiously ignored. Thus we have a president wading into the Trayvon Martin shooting, but saying absolutely nothing about the epidemic of gun violence in his adopted city of Chicago. Why? We all know why, but no one will.openly broach the topic.
Criminals are not securing weapons through legal and legitimate sources and I don’t think anyone will dispute that. Until we are willing to discuss the destruction of the black family and the resultant collapse of social order, along with issues related to the prescription of certain behavior modifying drugs and the woeful state of mental health care in this country, the killings will continue.
