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Originally Posted by WarChild
It's really very simple to understand and even you should get it. When there are more guns present, more people are hurt and killed with guns. Period, full stop. The United States finds its self in great company, surrounded by impoverished and war torn nations, in the rankings for gundeaths per capita. The rest of the industrialized World has far, far, far fewer gun deaths.
It's even evident within your own nation. The states with the most guns and most lax gun controls lead the nation in gun deaths.
See, the problem with having guns generally available is that any idiot can make a split second decision long before their pathetic brains can even process the situation. Shit just look at posters right here on GFY. Read some of Dirty Danza's posts. That guy is basically functionally retarded. I'm not saying that to be mean, it's just true. He's also running around loaded up with firearms, listening to police scanners hoping to be a hero. That doesn't sound like a dangerous situation to you?
Also, before you get all crazy and say anything else stupid, I should probably point out to you that DESPITE the facts of the matter, and they are facts there's no real disputing them, I'm not actually AGAINST gun ownership. In fact, in Costa Rica I had a concealed carry permit, took tactical training and from time to time depending on the situation I carried. Fortunately I'm smart enough to know even before I pull a trigger what kind of life changing decission I'd be making. Further I'm smart enough not to go say for instance drinking while carrying.
Now mind you, Costa Rica and the United States have similar numbers for handgun deaths per capita so as an American I'm sure you can well understand that when you're in a shit hole populated mostly by morons and many of them with guns then yeah I guess you have to get one too. Fortunately for the rest of us in the civilized world, we can still go hunting, or target shooting or any number of gun related "sports", but we don't have to worry about mental giants such as yourself shooting anyone. Well, at least we don't have to worry anywhere near as much.
Here's a big list of facts for you about guns and their usage in the United States. Sources are included.
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The Violence Policy Center?
LOL!
Talk about a fraud!
Famous for skewed statistics and outright lies!
Tells us that because a disporportionate number of black males shoot each other, the solution is to reduce access to firearms for all.
Right.
Try this on for size!:
http://www.guncontrolkills.com/469/g...ghts%E2%80%9D/
"Violence Policy Center ?Blacks Should Have Reduced Gun Rights?
Whatever the VPC?s intent may be, the gun control group indirectly concludes that black communities must be disarmed.
http://www.vpc.org/studies/blackhomicide10.pdf
Washington, DC ? -(Pajamasmedia.com)- The Violence Policy Center (VPC) ? the anti-gun rights group that Barack Obama repeatedly voted to fund while he was a director of the Joyce Foundation ? believes that African-Americans are too violent to deserve the entire Constitution.
Blacks in the United States are disproportionately affected by homicide. For the year 2007, blacks represented 13 percent of the nation?s population, yet accounted for 49 percent of all homicide victims.
As noted at the beginning of this study, the devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis, yet it is all too often ignored outside of affected communities.
For blacks, like all victims of homicide, guns ? usually handguns ? are far and away the number one murder tool. Successful efforts to reduce America?s black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms.
For an organization to make a public declaration that suggests an entire race be denied the same level of constitutional protections as others is both shocking and bewildering. The study received financing from left-wing groups dedicated to social engineering, including the David Bohnett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Public Welfare Foundation.
The goal of the Violence Policy Center in this report is the goal of the group in every report it has ever issued: an erosion of gun rights for all Americans, with the ultimate goal being the prohibition of all firearms save those under state control.
Towards that totalitarian end, the VPC does not seem to have any qualms about advocating a return to racist policies that left African-American communities helpless targets for most of a century.
Nor does Sugarman or his group explain how disarming law-abiding blacks will make them anything other than victims for those that refuse to follow existing prohibitions against murder?..
Whatever the VPC?s intent may be, the gun control group indirectly concludes that black communities must be disarmed.
Calls to limit the access of African-Americans to firearms specifically echo the ?black codes? adopted immediately at the end of the Civil War. These laws were passed in southern states in response to the Thirteenth Amendment?s outlawing of slavery, and were specifically engineered to circumscribe the civil rights and liberties of newly freed slaves and freemen. The codes assured the second-class status of African-Americans, and were a forerunner to decades of ?separate but equal? segregation under Jim Crow laws ? which were only overcome during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Among the codes commonly passed were laws that forbid or restricted the ownership of firearms by African-Americans. The codes were ?justified? with the explanation that African-Americans did not have the same rights as white citizens.
The Ku Klux Klan and similar groups were active in attempting to disarm blacks in the post-war South, and United States v. Cruikshank gave paramilitary racist mobs carte blanche to disarm African-American communities. This left them nearly defenseless to decades of lynchings, assaults, indignity, and, in several dozen instances, full-fledged ?race riots? that are more accurately described as massacres. Most of these rampages occurred with the full knowledge of local and state governments. The 1898 Wilmington race riot was carried out with the full knowledge and indifference of both North Carolina Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell and President William McKinley.
One can only hope that Josh Sugarman, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, is completely ignorant of the many mob actions and the thousands of deaths that resulted from laws that stripped African-Americans of their rights and liberties. Considering his long-running and strident anti-gun advocacy, it seems likely that Sugarman and the organization are well aware of history but made a political calculation in asking that African-Americans be disarmed.
The goal of the Violence Policy Center in this report is the goal of the group in every report it has ever issued: an erosion of gun rights for all Americans, with the ultimate goal being the prohibition of all firearms save those under state control. Towards that totalitarian end, the VPC does not seem to have any qualms about advocating a return to racist policies that left African-American communities helpless targets for most of a century. Nor does Sugarman or his group explain how disarming law-abiding blacks will make them anything other than victims for those that refuse to follow existing prohibitions against murder."