4um: BLACK PEOPLE & GUN CONTROL

Title: BLACK PEOPLE & GUN CONTROL
Source: The Burning Platform
URL Source: http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=49887
Published: Feb 25, 2013
Author: Administrator/Star Parker
Post Date: 2013-02-25 19:57:01 by Southern Style
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Views: 121
Comments: 4

Some interesting facts in this article by a black woman about gun control and black people. There are 5 times as many white people in this country as black people. From the U.S. Census Bureau there are approximately 80 million white households and 15 million black households. According to the article 42% of white households and 16% of black households own a gun. That means there are 33.6 million white households with a gun and 2.4 million black households with a gun. That means there are 14 times as many white households than black households with a gun. The article also states that blacks are 6 times more likely die by homicide and 8 times more likely to commit a homicide than white people, even though they are only one-fifth of the total white population. Obama’s efforts to disarm white people will not reduce the number of black homicides. It will just increase the number of white people susceptible to crime and the DHS.

Obama should be focused on why black people murder each other at such an alarming rate. But that isn’t his agenda. He doesn’t want to fix the real problems in this country because it’s the liberal do-gooder entitlement policies that have created the urban kill zones. It’s the liberals who are responsible for the thousands of black people murdered every year by other black people.

Preserve gun rights, save black rights

My organization, CURE — the Center for Urban Renewal and Education — recently sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the Second Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.

Our event provided a forum for black leaders — from the world of politics and public policy in Washington, from the business community, from academia, and from the clergy — to express their deep concern about current efforts to limit our God-given and constitutional individual right of self-defense.

Why would an organization like CURE, whose mission focuses on the relevance of American values of faith and freedom to minorities, be so concerned about guns?

Because, as conservative black Americans, we know that the soul of America is kept alive with the free flow of the oxygen of freedom. And we know that when that flow is interrupted in any way, the group that suffers first and most are blacks.

New gun control initiatives coming from our president and from Democrats in Congress to respond to a highly publicized tragedy by wanting to expand the power of government and limit the freedom of citizens comes as no surprise.

There is no problem facing America today that liberals do not believe should be solved by more government and less freedom. And liberals are consistent and predictable in their indifference to facts and experience that show whenever they do succeed in growing government and limiting freedom, they make matters worse, not better.

A substantial body of research already shows that gun controls empower criminals and weaken law-abiding citizens.

As John Lott, former chief economist of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which three or more people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where people are not allowed to carry their own firearms.”

Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 42 percent of whites and 16 percent of blacks say that they have a pistol or rifle at home.

And, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for the period 1980 to 2008, “Blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely to commit a homicide.”

Law-abiding black citizens live under siege in crime-ridden urban centers. Somehow, they are supposed to buy the logic that they’ll be better off if more power is given to those in law enforcement (who already are charged with maintaining order, but don’t), while freedoms are stripped from those who obey the law.

In a Pew Research Center survey in 2009, 46 percent of whites compared to 24 percent of blacks said they had a “great deal” of confidence in their local police to enforce the law.

Can anyone whom God has blessed with a brain actually think that universal background checks will keep guns out of the hands of gang thugs? Or that these same checks, in which some past legal infraction might nullify a gun application, will not result in even fewer urban law-abiding blacks obtaining a weapon for protection?

Perhaps even worse than another make-pretend big-government “answer” that not only will not solve a problem but will make it worse: Gun control initiatives mask the issues that really need attention.

Those include: a culture that devalues personal responsibility, that fosters government dependence, that trashes traditional understanding of sex, marriage and family, and that bans these traditional values from our public schools and our public life.

Americans of all backgrounds must fight yet another misguided liberal attempt to undermine our personal freedom and sap the vitality of our nation.

"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I donâ€™t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs

I hope to GOD someone will let the Police Department know about this. I can see the headline now: POLICE KILL FOURTEEN TODDLERS ARMED WITH TOY GUNS.

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…” -Malcolm X

"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan