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10th May 2014, 11:49 AM
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May 5, 2014
Although there is an inherent problem with the term "gun violence," given that only people and not inanimate objects can be violent, there is an ugly truth about persons who commit crimes with guns (http://www.examiner.com/topic/guns) that is not being reported in the news or by the government. The overwhelming majority of such violence is gang-related and occurs primarily in large inner cities.
The reason these facts are not being reported nor talked about in the public sphere is not far to find. The facts are too politically incorrect, too painful to admit, and too damaging to the mindset and programs of the progressive movement represented by the likes of Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Rahm Emanuel.
One factor is glaringly obvious. In order to appropriately address the problem of violence in the inner cities one must accurately identify the perpetrators. But to do that in today's society would mean to admit some harsh truths that will not play well with the race-baiters, the collectivists, the social engineers of the major universities, and the template being used by most "trained and authorized" journalists in the mainstream media.
The most obvious of these inconvenient truths is that most of the perpetrators of such crimes -- those committed with guns -- are Hispanic and Black gangs in the inner cities. And they are being enabled by the policies of a government gone mad with its nanny-state mentality, all in the name of "helping" those who live in these dangerous areas.
An analysis posted today (http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228984) by Karl Denninger lays it all out in plain language. The welfare and police state this society has created is largely to blame for the problem. Without money these inner city gangs could not do business. But we have made it easy for them to get money, money that is supposedly designed to "help the poor." But in this case the money that is going into the pockets of the perpetrators is not helping them become productive citizens in the marketplace. Rather, that money is enabling them to engage in activity on the streets each night that only pads their pockets with more money. Ill-gotten money.
But another factor in this entirely untenable scenario is perhaps the most outrageous factor of all. The crimes committed by the gangs with guns are largely directed at other gangs with guns, or individuals within their own racial and socio-economic group. These people are killing each other. For example, Denninger cites the fact that if one takes out the black-on-black murders in the inner cities, then murders involving guns would drop by 80 percent in America.
Thus, young people of color -- Hispanics and Blacks -- are murdering each other at an alarming rate each night on the streets of the all of the largest cities in America. Bloomberg, Obama, Pelosi, and company would blame this on guns. And this is a convenient way for them to avoid addressing the real issues that lie beneath the violence. But it also gives them an excuse to attempt to justify their moves to disarm every citizen in America.
And of course there is that all-pervasive problem that motivates this entire fiasco -- we are throwing money at minorities in inner cities without teaching them to become independent and capable of standing on their own two feet to make an honest living. Within that one factor alone are the seeds for all of the rest. The politicians and the collectivists do not want people to be independent. They wish for them to be kept dependent on government programs and our tax dollars. Statists know that a population is infinitely easier to control when most of the citizens are dependent on government programs and tax dollars.
Thus, a major paradigm shift, and not gun control (http://www.examiner.com/topic/gun-control), is the key to the solution of this growing problem.
May 5, 2014
Although there is an inherent problem with the term "gun violence," given that only people and not inanimate objects can be violent, there is an ugly truth about persons who commit crimes with guns (http://www.examiner.com/topic/guns) that is not being reported in the news or by the government. The overwhelming majority of such violence is gang-related and occurs primarily in large inner cities.
The reason these facts are not being reported nor talked about in the public sphere is not far to find. The facts are too politically incorrect, too painful to admit, and too damaging to the mindset and programs of the progressive movement represented by the likes of Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Rahm Emanuel.
One factor is glaringly obvious. In order to appropriately address the problem of violence in the inner cities one must accurately identify the perpetrators. But to do that in today's society would mean to admit some harsh truths that will not play well with the race-baiters, the collectivists, the social engineers of the major universities, and the template being used by most "trained and authorized" journalists in the mainstream media.
The most obvious of these inconvenient truths is that most of the perpetrators of such crimes -- those committed with guns -- are Hispanic and Black gangs in the inner cities. And they are being enabled by the policies of a government gone mad with its nanny-state mentality, all in the name of "helping" those who live in these dangerous areas.
An analysis posted today (http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228984) by Karl Denninger lays it all out in plain language. The welfare and police state this society has created is largely to blame for the problem. Without money these inner city gangs could not do business. But we have made it easy for them to get money, money that is supposedly designed to "help the poor." But in this case the money that is going into the pockets of the perpetrators is not helping them become productive citizens in the marketplace. Rather, that money is enabling them to engage in activity on the streets each night that only pads their pockets with more money. Ill-gotten money.
But another factor in this entirely untenable scenario is perhaps the most outrageous factor of all. The crimes committed by the gangs with guns are largely directed at other gangs with guns, or individuals within their own racial and socio-economic group. These people are killing each other. For example, Denninger cites the fact that if one takes out the black-on-black murders in the inner cities, then murders involving guns would drop by 80 percent in America.
Thus, young people of color -- Hispanics and Blacks -- are murdering each other at an alarming rate each night on the streets of the all of the largest cities in America. Bloomberg, Obama, Pelosi, and company would blame this on guns. And this is a convenient way for them to avoid addressing the real issues that lie beneath the violence. But it also gives them an excuse to attempt to justify their moves to disarm every citizen in America.
And of course there is that all-pervasive problem that motivates this entire fiasco -- we are throwing money at minorities in inner cities without teaching them to become independent and capable of standing on their own two feet to make an honest living. Within that one factor alone are the seeds for all of the rest. The politicians and the collectivists do not want people to be independent. They wish for them to be kept dependent on government programs and our tax dollars. Statists know that a population is infinitely easier to control when most of the citizens are dependent on government programs and tax dollars.
Thus, a major paradigm shift, and not gun control (http://www.examiner.com/topic/gun-control), is the key to the solution of this growing problem.