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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on February 18, 2013, 10:49:25 AM
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Our Real Problem Is Cultural Decay, Not Guns
By Walter E. Williams
Posted 02/12/2013 06:37 PM ET
Walter E. Williams
There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress.
Upon his arrival, he reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances of the building next door.
When questioned about his actions, he replied that he didn't have enough men to cover the department store's many entrances but he did have enough for the building next door.
Let's see whether there are similarities between his strategy and today's gun control strategy.
Last year, Chicago had 512 homicides; Detroit had 411; Philadelphia had 331; and Baltimore had 215.
Those cities are joined by other dangerous cities—such as St. Louis, Memphis, Tenn., Flint, Mich., and Camden, N.J. — and they also lead the nation in shootings, assaults, rapes and robberies.
Both the populations of those cities and their crime victims are predominantly black. Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are murdered.
Black Victims
Close to 100% of the time, the murderer is another black person.
Uh-oh. Anti gun freaks Sharpton and the NAACP won't like this story. (http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/021213-644195-cultural-decay-not-guns-is-the-real-problem.htm)
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He is correct, but it goes far beyond guns to institutions like marriage and the nuclear family...largely due to 50 years of government 'Help' making things 'Better' and 'More equal.'
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He is correct, but it goes far beyond guns to institutions like marriage and the nuclear family...largely due to 50 years of government 'Help' making things 'Better' and 'More equal.'
It's all entwined. Such a tangled web they've weaved.
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All I know is I would not want to speak or attend an Obama function. Seems you have a good chance of dying afterwards due to gun violence.
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All I know is I would not want to speak or attend an Obama function. Seems you have a good chance of dying afterwards due to gun violence.
I wouldn't do ANYTHING which would put me on Don O'Bummer's radar for longer than was absolutely necessary. Makes it difficult to shake radar lock later, when it's needed...
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Walter Williams is my favorite economist. He is also a great conservative, thinker, and writer.
Oh, and Lurkers, he is black!
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