Gun Control's Racist History

LTC Stephen B. - Well sir that's a good point. Poverty alone is not the cause of crime but it is an unquestionable contributing factor. If it wasn't then the crime rate in Southside Chicago would be the same as Munster, IN. I think you're alluding to places like Kentucky and Appalachia where there are high rates of poverty but relatively low rates of crime. Excluding the population difference the glaring difference is the degradation of the Black family. It's hard to raise your kids when you're locked up. This cycle dates all the way back to Reconstruction (some would say longer). The streets (gangs, criminals) fill that void for many young people. Allowing the crack epidemic to fester during the 1980s was probably one of the worst things to happen to urban America. Not only did it exacerbate already fragile communities but the effects are still felt today. I could go on about this but with all that in mind I don't want people getting this impression like Trump that it's all a war zone and unless you have a gun when you walk down the street you're going to get shot. I lived in the Chicago area right after I left the military and I was on the southside many times. I never got shot or saw anyone shot. I've lived in Atlanta and Philadelphia and never had a problem other than my home getting burglarized.

I still see this as a chicken-vs-egg kind of deal. Minorities dealt with poverty the same as everyone else in the early 20th century - by families, churches and communities bonding together. Once the government programs took over that role and started subsidizing out-of-wedlock births / financially 'penalizing' women who married the father of their child, the number of single-parent households (usually single mothers) increased dramatically. That led to many young men with no father-figure in their lives and no concept of the 'nuclear family' which started a societal do-loop where single-mother hood and fatherless families were the norm. And I believe this also led to the lack of respect and discipline in many communities that are now ravaged by crime - I know the influence my father had on my life, and can only shudder to think where I would have ended up if not for him. If the 'fathers' really wanted to be around to raise their children, perhaps they should stop leading lives of crime that result in their being locked up?

Top it all off with left-leaning ideologies that celebrate the abnormal, celebrate killing of infants, celebrate removing men/fathers from the family decision process, celebrate the denigration of the 'made in His image' respect of human life, and society is exactly where you would expect it to be: thumbing its collective nose at God and wondering why we live in hell on earth.

I also remember Jesse Jackson having a conniption fit because Pres. Clinton signed a law making tough penalties for selling crack in the inner city neighborhoods. Kinda makes you wonder what side he is really on...

"Trafficking in crack, and the violence it fosters," the president said, "has a devastating impact on communities across America, especially inner-city communities. Tough penalties for crack trafficking are required because of the effect on individuals and families, related gang activity, turf battles and other violence."

The Justice Department ... argues that crack should be punished more severely because crack crimes contribute more heavily to violence in the poor communities targeted by narcotics dealers.

Civil rights organizations had led a telephone campaign to pressure the president to veto the bill. At a rally last week in Chicago, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said that Mr. Clinton had the chance, "with one stroke of your veto pen, to correct the most grievous racial injustice built into our legal system."

The gov sure did their part with social programs to screw the black urban population, with a combined outcome of destroying the nuclear family, and creating a dependence that destroys drive and individual accomplishment. Realistically, the military is the best counter to a lot of these problems.

LOL! I had to read it twice. For a second I thought you were serious...y'know....being infantry and all.